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Michael J. Agovino
The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty Year Pursuit of the International Game
University of Nebraska Press
April 2014
The Soccer Diaries is an original take on soccer written with the persuasion and passion of a
lifelong, ardent fan with an admitted 30 year obsession with the sport both abroad and inside the
U.S. Author Michael Agovino details his journey from the “lonely pursuit” of his days as an
American teenage fan living in the Bronx’s Co op City in the early 1980’s—a time when the
sport was followed primarily by an immigrant population—to soccer’s arrival in the late 1990’s
and beyond, when young players stormed suburban school fields across the country leading to an
explosion in interest in the game, or what the author calls its evolution to trendy, upper middle
class pastime.
The Soccer Diaries is an informative, highly entertaining, and personal ride through one of the
world’s most revered passions in all its beauty and complexity.
Everett Alvarez Jr.
Chained Eagle
University of Nebraska Press
May 2005
On August 5, 1964, while Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez was flying a retaliatory air strike against naval
targets in North Vietnam, antiaircraft fire crippled his A-4 fighter-bomber, forcing him to eject
over water at low altitude. Alvarez relates the engrossing tale of his capture by fishermen, brutal
treatment by the North Vietnamese, physical and mental endurance, and triumphant repatriation
nearly nine years later in 1973. Alvarez spent more time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam than any
other flier. As Senator John McCain, a fellow POW, has written, “During his captivity, Ev
exhibited a courage, compassion, and indomitable will that was an inspiration to us all.” Indeed,
the book, which was written with Anthony S. Pitch, is remarkable for its lack of rancor. Alvarez
directs his strongest words against the small number of POWs who broke ranks and collaborated
with the enemy. As one reviewer wrote, Alvarez “relates the misery of his condition with a
detachment that robs it of its shock value.” Chained Eagle also tells the story of the Alvarez
family’s ordeal during his years of imprisonment: His sister became an anitwar activist, his wife
divorced him, and relatives died. Yet throughout his time as a prisoner of war, Alvarez remained
duty-bound and held steadfast to his religious faith and the values enshrined in the U.S.
Constitution.
Ruth Calderon (Author) and Translated by Ilana Kurshan
A Bride for One Night
University of Nebraska Press (Jewish Publication Society)
March 2014
Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In
this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the
liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly
imagined fictions, drawing us into the lives of such characters as the woman who risks her life for
a sister suspected of adultery; a humble schoolteacher who rescues his village from drought; and
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a wife who dresses as a prostitute to seduce her pious husband in their garden. Breathing new life
into an ancient text, A Bride for One Night offers a surprising and provocative read, both for
anyone already intimate with the Talmud and for anyone interested in one of the most influential
works of Jewish literature.
Richard Campanella
Bourbon Street
Louisiana State University Press
March 2014
New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion
as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a
year. A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard
Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during the colonial
period through three tu-multuous centuries, arriving at the world-famous entertainment strip of
today.
Clearly written and carefully researched, Campanella’s book interweaves world events—from the
Louisiana Purchase to World War II to Hurricane Katrina—with local and national characters,
ranging from presidents to showgirls, to explain how Bourbon Street became an intriguing and
singular artifact, uniquely informative of both New Orleans’s history and American society.
C. Lynn Carr
A Year in White
Rutgers University Press
January 2016
In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as
Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period.
During this time, these novices—called iyawo—endure a host of prohibitions, including most
notably wearing exclusively white clothing. In A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr, who
underwent this initiation herself, opens a window on this remarkable year-long religious
transformation.
Offering insight not only into Santería but also into religion more generally, A Year in White
makes an important contribution to our understanding of complex, dynamic religious landscapes
in multicultural, pluralist societies and how they inhabit our daily lives.
H. Alan Day, Lynn Wiese Sneyd, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
University of Nebraska Press
February 2014
He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a
permanent migraine: that’s what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old
ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The
opportunity then dropped into his lap to establish a sanctuary for unadoptable wild horses
previously warehoused by the Bureau of Land Management. After Day successfully lobbied
Congress, those acres became Mustang Meadows Ranch, the first government-sponsored wild
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horse sanctuary established in the United States.
The Horse Lover is Day’s personal history of the sanctuary’s vast enterprise, with its surprises
and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. Day’s deep connection with
the animals in his care is clear from the outset, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering,
with which he trained fifteen hundred wild horses. The Horse Lover weaves together Day’s
recollections of his cowboying adventures astride some of his best horses, all of which taught him
indispensable lessons about loyalty, perseverance, and hope. This heartfelt memoir reveals the
Herculean task of balancing the requirements of the government with the needs of wild horses.
French rights sold (Le Diable Vauvert)
Charles N. deGravelles
Billy Cannon: A Long, Long Run
LSU Press
September 2015
Billy Cannon’s name, his image, and his remarkable athletic career serve as emblems for
Louisiana State University, the Southeastern Conference, and college football. LSU’s only
Heisman Trophy winner, Cannon led the Tigers to a national championship in 1958, igniting a
love of the game in Louisiana and establishing a tradition of greatness at LSU.
But like many stories of lionized athletes who rise to the status of legend, there was a fall—and in
the case of Billy Cannon, also redemption. For the first time, Charles N. deGravelles reveals in
full the thrilling highs and unexpected lows of Cannon’s life, in Billy Cannon: A Long, Long Run.
Donald E. DeVore
Defying Jim Crow
Louisiana State University Press
April 2015
From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief
that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship,
was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories of fluid race relations and
post–Civil War political participation, they remained committed to a disciplined and sustained
pursuit of equality. Defying Jim Crow tells the story of this community’s decades-long struggle
against segregation, disenfranchisement, and racial violence.
Amid mounting violence and increasing exclusion, black New Orleanians believed their best
defense depended upon maintaining a close-knit and politically engaged community. Donald E.
DeVore’s peerless research shows how African Americans sought to reverse the trends of
oppression by prioritizing the kind of capacity building—investment in education, participation in
national organizations, and a spirit of entrepreneurship in markets not dominated by white
businessmen—that would ensure the community’s ability to keep fighting for their rights in the
face of setbacks and hostility from the city’s white leaders. As some black activists worked to
attain equity within the “separate but equal” framework, they provided a firm foundation and
crucial support for more overt challenges to the racist government structures.
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Wheeler Winston Dixon
History of Horror
Rutgers University Press
August 2010
Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have
experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of
Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre.
Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop
sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the
Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History
of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its
enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011
English Audio rights sold.
Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth, editors
Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought
University of Nebraska Press
Spring 2015
Jews and Genes explores today’s hot topics in genetics and bioethics: new advances in stem cell
research, genetics and modern diseases, genetic mapping and identity, genetic testing, genetic
intervention, and the role of religion and ethics in shaping public policy. With special interest in
how genetics impacts and interests Jews around the world, Jews and Genes brings together 16
leaders in their fields, from all walks of Judaism, to explore these most timely and intriguing
topics—the intricacies of the genetic code and wonders of life, along with cutting edge science
and the ethical issues it raises.
Jeremy Evans
The Battle for Paradise: Surfing, Tuna, and One Town's Quest to Save a Wave
Univeristy of Nebraska Press
Fall 2015
Pavones, a town located on the southern tip of Costa Rica, is a haven for surfers, expatriates, and
fishermen seeking a place to start over. Located on the Golfo Dulce (Sweet Gulf), a marine
sanctuary and one of the few tropical fjords in the world, Pavones is home to a legendary surf
break and a cottage fishing industry. In 2004 a multinational company received approval to install
the world’s first yellowfin tuna farm near the mouth of the Golfo Dulce. The tuna farm as planned
would pollute the area, endanger sea turtles, affect the existing fish population, and threaten the
world-class wave. A lawsuit was filed just in time, and the project was successfully stalled. Thus
began an unlikely alliance of local surfers, fishermen, and global environmental groups to save a
wave and one of the most biodiverse places on the planet.
In The Battle for Paradise, Jeremy Evans travels to Pavones to uncover the story of how this
ragtag group stood up to a multinational company and how a shadowy figure from the town’s
violent past became an unlikely hero. In this harrowing but ultimately inspiring story, Evans
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focuses in turn on a colorful cast of characters with an unyielding love for the ocean and surfing,
a company’s unscrupulous efforts to expand profits, and a government that nearly sold out the
perfect wave.
Scott Ezell
A Far Corner: Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe
University of Nebraska Press
February 2015
In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance
from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan’s remote Pacific coast. He fell in with
the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians
who lived on the beach and cultivated a living connection with their indigenous heritage. Most
members of the Open Circle Tribe belong to the Amis tribe, which is descended from
Austronesian peoples that migrated from China thousands of years ago. As a “nonstate” people
navigating the fraught politics of contemporary Taiwan, the Amis of the Open Circle Tribe
exhibit, for Ezell, the best characteristics of life at the margins, striving to create art and to live
autonomous, unorthodox lives.
Japanese and Chinese rights retained by author.
Cody Ferguson
This is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century
Rutgers University Press
August 2015
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a
quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he
describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and
Tennessee—revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems. These
stories include successes and failures as citizens learned how to participate in their democracy
and redefined what participation meant. Equally important, Ferguson describes how several laws
passed in the seventies—such as the National Environmental Policy Act—gave citizens the
opportunity and the tools to fight for the environment. Moreover, Ferguson shows that through
their experiences over the course of the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, these citizen activists broadened
their understanding of “this is our land” to mean “this is our community, this is our country, this
is our democracy, and this is our planet.”
Challenging us to see activism in a new way, This is Our Land recovers the stories of oftenunseen citizens who have been vitally important to the environmental movement. It will inspire
readers to confront environmental threats and make our world a safer, more just, and more
sustainable place to live.
"A terrific piece of work, Ferguson’s book seamlessly blends narrative and analysis in a lively
writing style, and shows the ways that we can collect, organize, and make sense of critical
moments from our recent environmental past. A must-read for scholars of American
environmentalism."
—Michael Egan, author of Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of
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Nicole R. Fleetwood
On Racial Icons
Rutgers University Press (Pinpoints)
June 2015
What meaning does the American public attach to images involving key black political, social,
and cultural figures? At a time when photography has become a primary means of documenting
historical progress, what is the representational currency that these images carry? How do racial
icons circulate and acquire meaning within the broader public?
The answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you
see depicting a racial event or black celebrity or public figure. On Racial Icons looks at visual
culture and race in the United States, in particular the significance of photography to document
black public life. It examines America’s fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad
of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gauge of a collective
racial wound. Investigating the concept of the icon in the context of photographic history,
national and cultural histories, and racial relations, Nicole Fleetwood focuses a sustained lens on
how racial icons circulate and acquire meaning within the broader public.
Jeff Forret
Slave Against Slave
LSU Press
November 2015
In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret
challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though
existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after
Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved
populations. Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in
which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing
on violence alone, Forret’s work also adds depth to our understanding of morality among the enslaved,
revealing how slaves sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it.
Forret mines a vast array of slave narratives, slaveholders’ journals, travelers’ accounts, and church and
court records from across the South to approximate the prevalence of slave-against-slave violence prior to
the Civil War. A diverse range of motives for these conflicts emerges, from tensions over status
differences, to disagreements originating at work and in private, to discord relating to the slave economy
and the web of debts that slaves owed one another, to courtship rivalries, marital disputes, and adulterous
affairs. Forret also uncovers the role of explicitly gendered violence in bondpeople’s constructions of
masculinity and femininity, suggesting a system of honor among slaves that would have been familiar to
southern white men and women, had they cared to acknowledge it.
Though many generations of scholars have examined violence in the South as perpetrated by and against
whites, the internal clashes within the slave quarters have remained largely unexplored. Forret’s analysis of
intraracial slave conflicts in the Old South examines narratives of violence in slave communities, opening a
new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.
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Joey Franklin
My Wife Wants You To Know I’m Happily Married
University of Nebraska Press
November 2015
Modern manhood is confusing and complicated, but Joey Franklin, a thirtysomething father of
three, is determined to make the best of it. In My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married,
he offers frank, self-deprecating meditations on everything from male-pattern baldness and the
balm of blues harmonica to Grand Theft Auto and the staying power of first kisses. He riffs on
cockroaches, hockey, romance novels, Boy Scout hikes, and the challenge of parenting a child
through high-stakes Texas T-ball.
With honesty and wit, Franklin explores what it takes to raise three boys, succeed in a
relationship, and survive as a modern man. My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married is
an uplifting rumination on learning from the past and living for the present, a hopeful take on
being a man without being a menace to society.
"A candid, subtly profound collection."—Kirkus
Mattias Frey and Cecilia Sayad
Film Criticism in the Digital Age
Rutgers University Press
May 2015
In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider
whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth
in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the
book’s contributors find many signs of the film critic’s declining clout, but they also locate
surprising examples of how critics—whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers—have
been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture.
In addition to collecting a plethora of scholarly perspectives, Film Criticism in the Digital Age
includes statements from key bloggers and print critics, like Armond White and Nick James.
Neither an uncritical celebration of digital culture nor a jeremiad against it, this anthology offers a
comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities that the Internet brings to the evaluation,
promotion, and explanation of artistic works.
Made into the hit movie starring Steve Martin!!
Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Cheaper By the Dozen
Harper
1948
What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father -- a famous efficiency
expert -- who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in
everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up and a delightfully enduring
story of family life at the turn of the 20th century.
Rights sold in Slovene (Drustvo Mohorjeva Druzba), Complex Chinese (Breifing Press), and
Marathi (Mehta).
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Sequel to the popular CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN!
Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Belles On Their Toes
Harper
1950
Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house. When the youngest was two and the
oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family
together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis
with a marvelous sense of fun -- whether it's battling chicken pox, giving the boot to an
unwelcome boyfriend, or even meeting the President. Belles on Their Toes is a warm, wonderful,
and entertaining sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen!
Sold in Slovene (Drustvo Mohorjeva druzba).
John Golan
Lavi: The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet
University of Nebraska Press
January 2016
The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of
Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-performance aircraft. In a controversial strategy,
Israel Aircraft Industries intended to develop and manufacture the fighters in Israel with
American financial support. The sophisticated planes, developed in the mid-1980s, were unique
in design and intended to make up the majority of the Israeli Air Force. Though considerable
prestige and money were at stake, developmental costs increased and doubts arose as to whether
the Lavi could indeed be the warplane it was meant to be. Eventually the program became a
microcosm for the ambitions, fears, and internal divisions that shaped both the U.S.-Israel
relationship and Israeli society itself. But the fighter never made it to operational service, and
until now, the full breadth and significance of the Lavi story have never been examined and
presented.
Lavi: The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet traces the evolution of the Lavi
fighter from its genesis in the 1970s to its scrapping in August 1987. John W. Golan examines the
roles of Israeli military icons and political leaders such as Ezer Weizman, Ariel Sharon,
Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Rabin in the program and in relation to their counterparts in the
United States. On the American side, Golan traces the evolution of government policy toward the
program, detailing the complex picture of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus and of U.S.-Israel
relations in general—from President Reagan’s public endorsement of the program on the White
House lawn to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger’s unremitting attempts to cancel it in
succeeding years.
Diana R. Gordon
Village of Immigrants
Rutgers University Press
November 2015
Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a
little-noted national trend—immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of
rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how
small-town America has been revitalized by the arrival of these immigrants in Greenport, where
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she lives.
Greenport today boasts a population that is one-third Hispanic. Gordon contends that these
immigrants have effectively saved the town’s economy by taking low-skill jobs, increasing the
tax base, filling local schools, and patronizing local businesses. Greenport’s seaside beauty still
attracts summer tourists, but it is only with the support of the local Latino workforce that elegant
restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts are able to serve these visitors. For Gordon the picture is
complex, because the wave of immigrants also presents the town with challenges to its services
and institutions. Village of Immigrants weaves together these people’s stories, fears, and dreams
to reveal an environment plagued by threats of deportation, debts owed to coyotes, low wages,
and the other bleak realities that shape the immigrant experience—even in the charming seaport
town of Greenport.
Kevin Grange
Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World by Kevin
Grange
University of Nebraska Press
April 2011
In a remote kingdom hidden in the Himalayas, there is a trail said to be the toughest trek in the
world—twenty-four days, 216 miles, eleven mountain passes, and enough ghost stories to scare
an exorcist.
In 2007 Kevin Grange decided to acquaint himself with the country of Bhutan by taking on this
infamous trail, the Snowman Trek. He was thirty-three, at a turning point in life, and figured the
best way to go at a crossroad was up. Against a backdrop of Buddhist monasteries and soaring
mountains, Grange ventured beyond the mapped world to visit time-lost villages and sacred
valleys. In the process, recounted here with a blend of laugh-out-loud humor, heartfelt insight,
and acute observation, he tested the limits of physical endurance, met a fascinating assortment of
characters, and discovered truths about faith, hope, and the shrouded secret of blossom rain.
Beneath Blossom Rain, Grange’s account of his journey, packs an adventure story, a romantic
twist, and a celebration of group travel into a single entertaining book. The result is the ultimate
journey for any traveler, armchair or otherwise. Along with high adventure, it delivers an
engaging look at Bhutan—a country that governs by a policy of Gross National Happiness and
that many regard as the last Shangri-La.
“Entertaining. . . . [Grange] writes well of the beauty he encounters.”
—Wall Street Journal
"A highly readable journey of one man's renewed lease on life."
—Kirkus Reviews
Rights sold in English in India, Bhutan, Nepal & Sri Lanka (Timeless Art Book Studio), Chinese
(Beijing Mediatime Books Co., Ltd.) and Latvian (Jana Rozes). Audio rights sold (Audible.com).
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Robert H. Gregory Jr.
Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars: Air Power in Kosovo and Libya
University of Nebraska Press
October 2015
After the United States, along with NATO allies, bombed the Serbian forces of Slobodan
Milosevic for seventy-eight days in 1999, Milosevic withdrew his army from Kosovo. With no
troops on the ground, political and military leaders congratulated themselves on the success of
Operation Allied Force, considered to be the first military victory won through the use of strategic
air power alone. This apparent triumph motivated military and political leaders to embrace a
policy of using “clean bombs” (precision munitions and air strikes)—without a dirty ground
war—as the preferred choice for answering military aggression. Ten years later it inspired a
similar air campaign against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in Libya as a groundswell of protests
erupted into revolution.
Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars offers a fresh perspective on the role, relevance, and effectiveness
of air power in contemporary warfare, including an exploration of the political motivations for its
use as well as a candid examination of air-to-ground targeting processes. Using recently
declassified materials from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library along with primary
evidence culled from social media posted during the Arab Spring, Robert H. Gregory Jr. shows
that the argument that air power eliminates the necessity for boots on the ground is an artificial
and illusory claim.
Jeffrey S. Gurock
The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of the American Jewry 1938-1967
Rutgers University Press
April 2015
In The Holocaust Averted, Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish
community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred and forces readers to
contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today’s American Jews could
have been harder than it actually was.
Based on reasonable alternatives grounded in what is known of the time, places, and participants,
Gurock presents a concise narrative of his imagined war-time saga and the events that followed
Hitler’s military failures. While German Jews did suffer under Nazism, the millions of Jews in
Eastern Europe survived and were able to maintain their communities. Since few people were
concerned with the safety of European Jews, Zionism never became popular in the United States
and social antisemitism kept Jews on the margins of society. By the late 1960s, American Jewish
communities were far from vibrant. This alternate history—where, among many scenarios, Hitler
is assassinated, Japan does not bomb Pearl Harbor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt is succeeded
after two terms by Robert A. Taft—does cause us to review and better appreciate history. As
Gurock tells his tale, he concludes every chapter with a short section that describes what actually
happened and, thus, further educates the reader.
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Stephen Harris
Harlem’s Hell Fighters
University of Nebraska Press
March 2005
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men
volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New
York City joined the 15th N.Y. Infantry, a National Guard regiment later designated the 369th
U.S. Infantry. Led by mostly inexperienced white and black officers, these men not only received
little instruction at their training camp in South Carolina but were frequent victims of racial
harassment from both civilians and their white comrades. Once in France, they initially served as
laborers, all while chafing to prove their worth as American soldiers.
Then they got their chance. The 369th became one of the few U.S. units that American
commanding general John J. Pershing agreed to let serve under French command. Donning
French uniforms and taking up French rifles, the men of the 369th fought valiantly alongside
French Moroccans and held one of the widest sectors on the Western Front. The entire regiment
was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the French government’s highest military honor. Stephen L.
Harris’s accounts of the valor of a number of individual soldiers make for exciting reading,
especially that of Henry Johnson, who defended himself against an entire German squad with a
large knife. After reading this book, you will know why the Germans feared the black men of the
369th and why the French called them “hell fighters.”
Grant Hayter-Menzies
From Stray Dog to WWI Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division
University of Nebraska Press
November 2015
On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan,
befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longeran unwanted street mutt, Rags became
the mascot to the entire First Division of the American Expeditionary Force and a friend to the
American troops who had crossed the Atlantic to fight. Rags was more than a scruffy face and a
wagging tail, however. The little terrier mix was with the division at the crucial battle of
Soissons, at the Saint-Mihiel offensive, and finally in the blood-and-mud bath of the MeuseArgonne, during which he and his guardian were wounded. Despite being surrounded by
distraction and danger, Rags learned to carry messages through gunfire, locate broken
communications wire for the Signal Corps to repair, and alert soldiers to incoming shells, saving
the lives of hundreds of American soldiers. Through it all, he brought inspiration to men with
little to hope for, especially in the bitter last days of the war.
From Stray Dog to World War I Hero covers Rags’s entire life story, from the bomb-filled years
of war through his secret journey to the United States that began his second life, one just as filled
with drama and heartache. In years of peace, Rags served as a reminder to human survivors of
what held men together when pushed past their limits by the horrors of battle.
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Rabbi Michael Hilton
Bar Mitzvah: A History
University of Nebraska Press (The Jewish Publication Society)
June 2014
This is a comprehensive history of the bar mitzvah (and later, the bat mitzvah). As cultural
anthropology, informed by rabbinic knowledge, it explores the origins and development of the
most important coming of age milestone in Judaism. Hilton has sought out every reference and
citation to bar mitzvah in the Bible, Talmud and numerous other Jewish texts from over several
centuries, extracting interesting bits of information, stories, and commentary.
How did Bar/Bat Mitzvah develop over the centuries from an obscure legal ritual into a core
component of Judaism, especially Liberal Judaism? How did it capture the imagination of
everyone, including many non Jewish youth, and overwhelm rival rites of passage?
John-Paul Himka & Joanna Beata Michlic
Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Post-Communist
Europe
University of Nebraska Press
July 2013
Despite the Holocaust’s profound effect on the history of Eastern Europe, the communist era
successfully repressed public discourse and memory of this tragedy. Since the collapse of
communism, however, a wealth of archival sources have become available, including oral history
projects and interviews. This volume of original essays offers an interpretive survey of the
memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in post-communist Europe. They explore how the
memory of the ‘dark pasts’ are being recollected and reworked, and examine how this memory
shapes the collective identities and the social identity of ethnic and national minorities.
Alexander Laban Hinton
Hidden Genocides
Rutgers University Press
December 2013
Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied?
Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian
movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other
genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians,
Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that
was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.
The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives.
Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and
interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies.
Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton,
Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von
Joeden-Forgey.
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B.J. Hollars
From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human
University of Nebraska Press
Fall 2015
What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? And more broadly, how
have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do
we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join
B.J. Hollars as he attempts to find out—beginning with an ancient dog cemetery in Ashkelon,
Israel, and moving to the present day. Hollars’s firsthand reports recount a range of stories: the
arduous existence of a shelter officer, a woman’s relentless attempt to found a senior-dog
adoption facility, a family’s struggle to create a one-of-a-kind orthotic for its bulldog, and the
particular bond between a blind woman and her Seeing Eye dog. The book culminates with
Hollars’s own cross-country journey to Hartsdale Pet Cemetery—the country’s largest and oldest
pet cemetery—to begin the long-overdue process of laying his own childhood dog to rest.
Through these stories, Hollars reveals much about our pets but even more about the humans who
share their lives, providing a much-needed reminder that the world would be a better place if we
took a few cues from man’s best friends.
Andrew Horton and Julian Hoxter
Screenwriting
Rutgers University Press
September 2014
Screenwriters often joke that “no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay.”
Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the “green
light” from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume
gives readers a comprehensive portrait of the art and business of screenwriting, while showing
how the role of the screenwriter has evolved over the years.
Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize and 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Anne F. Hyde
Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
University of Nebraska Press
July 2011
The United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book
documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along
with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs
that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. Empires,
Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted
political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people.
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Kathryn Kalinak
Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects
Rutgers University Press
May 2015
Sound, the latest book in the Behind the Silver Screen series, introduces key concepts, seminal
moments, and pivotal figures in the development of cinematic sound. Each of the book’s six
chapters cover a different era in the history of Hollywood, from silent films to the digital age, and
each is written by an expert in that period. Together, the book’s contributors are able to explore a
remarkable range of past and present film industry practices, from the hiring of elocution coaches
to the marketing of soundtrack records.
Not only does the collection highlight the achievements of renowned sound designers and film
composers like Ben Burtt and John Williams, it also honors the unsung workers whose
inventions, artistry, and performances have shaped the soundscapes of many notable movies.
After you read Sound, you’ll never see—or hear—movies in quite the same way. Sound is a
volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series—other titles in the series include Acting;
Animation; Art Direction and Production Design; Cinematography; Costume, Makeup, and Hair;
Directing; Editing and Special Visual Effects; Producing; and Screenwriting.
Despina Kakoudaki
Anatomy of a Robot
Rutgers University Press
July 2014
Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic
tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial
projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an
engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their
narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They
perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation.
Artificial people teach us that being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and
often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle.
By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the
fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem,
Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to
alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements
in this centuries-old discourse— the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical
body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as
an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the
question of what constitutes the human.
Turkish rights sold to Kolektif.
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Sergei Kan
Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors
University of Nebraska Press
Spring 2015
Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural
activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the language,
culture, and history of the Tlingit. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit
culture and history not as objects of study, but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire
and guide the lives of Tlingit communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and
northwest British Columbia.
Patrick Keating
Cinematography
Rutgers University Press
July 2014
How does a film come to look the way it does? And what influence does the look of a film have
on our reaction to it? The role of cinematography, as both a science and an art, is often forgotten
in the chatter about acting, directing, and budgets. The successful cinematographer must have a
keen creative eye, as well as expert knowledge about the constantly expanding array of new
camera, film, and lighting technologies. Without these skills at a director’s disposal, most movies
quickly fade from memory. Cinematography focuses on the highlights of this art and provides the
first comprehensive overview of how the field has rapidly evolved, from the early silent film era
to the digital imagery of today.
Charles Keeton
A Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark Matter
Rutgers University Press (Pinpoints)
May 2014
What’s in the dark? Countless generations have gazed up at the night sky and asked this
question—the same question that cosmologists ask themselves as they study the universe.
The answer turns out to be surprising and rich. The space between stars is filled with an exotic
substance called “dark matter” that exerts gravity but does not emit, absorb, or reflect light. The
space between galaxies is rife with “dark energy” that creates a sort of cosmic antigravity causing
the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Together, dark matter and dark energy account for 95
percent of the content of the universe. News reporters and science journalists routinely talk about
these findings using terms that they assume we have a working knowledge of, but do you really
understand how astronomers arrive at their findings or what it all means?
Beverly Deepe Keever, Pulitzer Prize nominated author!
Death Zones and Darling Spies
University of Nebraska Press
May 2013
In 1961, equipped with a master’s degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of
introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off
on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South Vietnam, she was still there seven
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years later, having then earned the distinction of being the longest-serving American
correspondent covering the Vietnam War and garnering a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
In Death Zones and Darling Spies, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm
girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the
nation’s bloodiest and bitterest wars.
David Kelley
The Art of Reasoning
WW Norton
2012
New Updated Edition with fantastic ancillary materials!! David Kelley is a well respected
philosopher who is best known for his advocacy of Objectivism. After receiving his Ph.D. from
Princeton University, he became the founder and senior fellow of the Atlas Society, an
Objectivist organization. Kelley is also actively involved as a consultant and producer for the film
version of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, which will star Angelina Jolie.
Foreign rights with Norton.
Wolfgang Langewiesche
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying
McGraw-Hill
September 1990
More than 27 million copies in print! Stick and Rudder is the leading think-book on the art of
flying. One thorough reading of it should be the equivalent of many hours of practice. Stick and
Rudder explains the important phases of the art of flying, in a way any enthusiast can understand.
The book is applicable to airplanes be they large or small, old or new, and is of interest not only
to the curious, but also to the accomplished pilot.
Czech rights sold (Baronet), Chinese Simplified Rights sold (Beijing Science and Technology
Publishing Co., Ltd.)
Olive Leonhardt and Hilda Phelps Hammond
Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans
Louisiana State Press
March 2015
In the 1920s Prohibition was the law, but ignoring it was the norm, especially in New Orleans.
While popular writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald invented partygoers who danced from one
cocktail to the next, real denizens of the French Quarter imbibed their way across the city.
Bringing to life the fiction of flappers with tastes beyond bathtub gin, Shaking Up Prohibition in
New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z serves up recipes from the era of the
speakeasy.
Originally assembled by Olive Leonhardt and Hilda Phelps Hammond around 1929, this
delightful compendium applauds the city’s irrepressible love for cocktails in the format of a
classic alphabet book. Leonhardt, a noted artist, illustrated each letter of the alphabet, while
Hammond provided cocktail recipes alongside tongue-in-cheek poems that jab at the dubious
scenario of a “dry” New Orleans. A cultural snapshot of the Crescent City’s resistance to
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Prohibition, this satirical, richly illustrated book brings to life the spirit and spirits of a jazz city in
the Jazz Age.
Thomas Lippman
Hero of the Crossing: How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World
University of Nebraksa Press
January 2016
In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed history—not just that of Egypt, or of the Middle
East, but of the entire world. As the architect of the 1973 war against Israel, he gained the support
of other Arab nations and inspired the oil embargo that transformed the global economy.
Following the war, however, he forever ended Arab aspirations of unity by making peace with
Israel. Early in his presidency, Sadat jettisoned Egypt’s alliance with the Soviet Union and turned
to the United States, thereby giving the West a crucial Cold War victory. Sadat’s historic tenure
still resonates in the twenty-first century as the Islamic activists—whom he originally encouraged
but who opposed his conciliatory policy toward Israel and ultimately played a role in his
assassination—continue to foster activism, including the Muslim Brotherhood, today.
Thomas W. Lippman was stationed in the Middle East as a journalist during Sadat’s presidency
and lived in Egypt in the aftermath of the October War. He knew Sadat personally, but only now,
after the passage of time and the long-delayed release of the U.S. State Department’s diplomatic
files, can Lippman assess the full consequences of Sadat’s presidency. Hero of the Crossing
provides an eye-opening account of the profound reverberations of one leader’s political, cultural,
and economic maneuverings and legacy.
Allen Lynch
Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft
University of Nebraska Press
September 2011
Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his
character, motives, and plans for Russia’s future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin
has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional, ill informed, and diametrically opposed to the
image of Putin the majority of Russians hold. Even after he stepped down as president in May
2008, retaining a significant measure of power as prime minister under his hand-picked
successor, President Dmitri Medvedev, Putin remains poorly understood. In this interpretive
biography of Putin, Allen C. Lynch seeks to reconcile the two conflicting images and find out just
where the truth lies about the man and the statesman.
Westerners view Putin as an authoritarian holdover from the Soviet era who has clamped down
on domestic opposition, freedom of the press, and other elements of a functioning democracy and
who has relentlessly exerted Russian influence abroad, challenging the West and seeking to
control its post-Soviet periphery. Most Russians, in contrast, are likely to be grateful to Putin for
presiding over an economic recovery and reasserting Russian dignity on the world stage. A
complete apprehension of the Russian leader, according to Lynch, requires an understanding of
the way in which Putin’s personal experiences and critical events in recent Russian history have
shaped his outlook. Lynch convincingly demonstrates how a complex interplay of Russia’s postSoviet circumstances and the particular path of Putin’s career have informed his choices as
leader.
“Allen Lynch has produced the most insightful and balanced book yet published on Vladimir
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Putin and his impact on Russia. It is a key to understanding the first twelve years of 21st century
Russia, whether or not Vladimir Putin decides to resume the presidency following the 2012
election.”—Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to the USSR
Stephanie A. Malin
The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice
Rutgers University Press
May 2015
In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-theground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous
mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. Drawing on extensive
fieldwork conducted in rural isolated towns such as Monticello, Utah, and Nucla and Naturita,
Colorado, as well as in upscale communities like Telluride, Colorado, and incorporating
interviews with community leaders, environmental activists, radiation regulators, and mining
executives, Malin uncovers a fundamental paradox of the nuclear renaissance: the communities
most hurt by uranium’s legacy—such as high rates of cancers, respiratory ailments, and
reproductive disorders—were actually quick to support industry renewal. She shows that many
impoverished communities support mining not only because of the employment opportunities, but
also out of a personal identification with uranium, a sense of patriotism, and new notions of
environmentalism. But other communities, such as Telluride, have become sites of resistance,
skeptical of industry and government promises of safe mining, fearing that regulatory
enforcement won’t be strong enough. Malin further illustrates ways in which renewed uranium
production is not a socially sustainable form of energy development for rural communities, as it is
utterly dependent on unstable global markets.
The Price of Nuclear Power is an insightful portrait of the local impact of the nuclear renaissance
and the social and environmental tensions inherent in the rebirth of uranium mining.
"An enjoyable and accessible book, The Price of Nuclear Power provides great insight into the
central problem facing natural resource communities across the globe, and is rich in ethnographic
details that focus on environmental inequalities."
—Brian Mayer, professor of environmental sociology, University of Arizona
"Malin provides a compassionate and intriguing ethnography of communities harmed by uranium
mining and milling, of government duplicity in covering up hazards, and of the inspiring citizen
science with which opponents have mapped cancer clusters and conducted health surveys. This
book helps us understand how uranium production, along with other harmful energy production
can beget structural violence, disease, and perpetuate inequalities."
—Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences
Northeastern
Brian M. Mazanec
The Evolution of Cyber War: International Norms for Emerging-Technology Weapons
University of Nebraksa Press
November 2015
Former secretary of defense Leon Panetta once described cyber warfare as “the most serious
threat in the twenty-first century,” capable of destroying our entire infrastructure and crippling the
nation.
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Already, major cyber attacks have affected countries around the world: Estonia in 2007, Georgia
in 2008, Iran in 2010, and most recently the United States. As with other methods of war, cyber
technology can be used not only against military forces and facilities but also against civilian
targets. Information technology has enabled a new method of warfare that is proving extremely
difficult to combat, let alone defeat.
And yet cyber warfare is still in its infancy, with innumerable possibilities and contingencies for
how such conflicts may play out in the coming decades. Brian M. Mazanec examines the
worldwide development of constraining norms for cyber war and predicts how those norms will
unfold in the future. Employing case studies of other emerging-technology weapons—chemical
and biological, strategic bombing, and nuclear weaponry—Mazanec expands previous
understandings of norm-evolution theory, offering recommendations for U.S. policymakers and
citizens alike as they grapple with the reality of cyber terrorism in our own backyard.
Michael R. Molnar
The Star of Bethlehem
Rutgers University Press
September 2013
Could the $50 purchase of an ancient coin by a Rutgers astronomer have unlocked the mystery of
the Christmas Star? For years, scientists have looked, with little success, to astronomical records
for an explanation of the magical star that guided the Magi to Christ’s manger. Intrigued by the
image he found on the latest addition to his coin collection, Michael Molnar thought there might
be more to learn by looking, instead, at the teachings of ancient astrologers.
Molnar argues in his book that the Star of Bethlehem was not a star at all, but rather a regal
portent centering around the planet Jupiter that was eclipsed by the moon. He bases this theory on
the actual beliefs of astrologers, such as the Magi, who lived around the time of Christ. Molnar
found some intriguing clues to the mystery while researching the meaning of astrological symbols
he found an ancient coin, which bore the image of Aries looking back at a star. He found that
Aries was a symbol of Judea at the time, and that ancient astrologers believed that a new king
would be born when the moon passed in front of Jupiter. Molnar wondered, could the coin have
been issued as a response to the Great Messianic Portent, the Star of Bethlehem?
Italian and Czech rights were sold.
Anton Myrer
Once an Eagle
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
March 2013 (reissue)
A classic tale for any military enthusiast, Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier
named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale.
Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest.
Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and
in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the French countryside during the Great War,
the conflict between these adversaries solidifies in the isolated garrison life marking peacetime,
intensifies in the deadly Pacific jungles of World War II, and reaches its treacherous conclusion
in the last major battleground of the Cold War—Vietnam. Now reissued with a new foreword by
acclaimed historian Carlo D'Este, here is an unforgettable story of a man who embodies the best
in our nation—and in us all.
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Robert Nalbandov
Not by Bread Alone: Russian Foreign Policy under Putin
University of Nebraska Press
January 2016
Since its independence in 1991, Russia has struggled with the growing pains of defining its role
in international politics. After Vladimir Putin ascended to power in 2000, the country undertook
grandiose foreign policy projects in an attempt to delineate its place among the world’s
superpowers. With this in mind, Robert Nalbandov examines the milestones of Russia’s
international relations since the turn of the twenty-first century. He focuses on the specific goals,
engagement practices, and tools used by Putin’s administration to promote Russia’s vital national
and strategic interests in specific geographic locations. His findings illuminate Putin’s foreign
policy objective of reinstituting Russian global strategic dominance. Furthermore, Nalbandov
argues that identity-based politics have dominated Putin’s tenure and that Russia’s east/west split
is reflected in Asian/European politics.
Nalbandov’s analysis shows that unchecked domestic power, an almost exclusive application of
hard power, and a determined ambition for unabridged global influence and a defined place as a
world superpower are the keys to Putin’s Russia.
John G. Neihardt
Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
With a new introduction by Philip J. Deloria and annotations by Raymound J. DeMallie
University of Nebraska Press
March 2014
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–
1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers
much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of
humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses
multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native
nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
“Black Elk Speaks is an extraordinarily human document—and beyond that the record of a
profoundly spiritual journey, the pilgrimage of a people toward their historical fulfillment and
culmination, toward the accomplishment of a worthy destiny.”
—N. Scott Momaday
“An American classic.”
—Western Historical Quarterly
Rights sold in Romanian (Editura Herald), Chinese (Simplified) (Sunbook Culture & Art Co.,
Ltd., Chinese (Complex) (New Century), Czech (Volvox Globator), Finnish, Latvian, French, and
Italian.
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Cynthia LeJeune Nobles
A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook
LSU Press
October 2015
In John Kennedy Toole’s iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or
far away from his next bite. Whether issuing gibes such as “canned food is a perversion,” or
taking a break from his literary ambitions with “an occasional cheese dip,” this lover of Lucky
Dogs, café au lait, and wine cakes navigates 1960s New Orleans focused on gastronomical
pursuits.
For the novel’s millions of fans, Cynthia LeJeune Nobles’s “A Confederacy of Dunces”
Cookbook offers recipes inspired by the delightfully commonplace and always delicious fare of
Ignatius and his cohorts. Through an informative narrative and almost 200 recipes, Nobles
explores the intersection of food, history, and culture found in the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel,
opening up a new avenue into New Orleans’s rich culinary traditions.
2010 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection!!
John Parshall and Anthony Tully
Shattered Sword
University of Nebraska Press
November 2007
Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without
question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W.
Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new
interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes
extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo
Fuchida’s Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, an uncritical reliance upon which has tainted
every previous Western account. It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of
the great battle. The authors examine the battle in detail and effortlessly place it within the
context of the Imperial Navy’s doctrine and technology. With a foreword by leading WWII naval
historian John Lundstrom, Shattered Sword will become an indispensable part of any military
buff’s library. Winner of the 2005 John Lyman Book Award for the "Best Book in U.S. Naval
History" and cited by Proceedings as one of its "Notable Naval Books" for 2005.
Jon Pineda
Sleep In Me
University of Nebraska Press
September 2010
Against the backdrop of his teenage sister’s car accident—in which a dump truck filled with sand
slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends—Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica’s
sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and
unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her
rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in
Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy.
Simplified Chinese rights sold (Hunan People’s Publishing House).
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Rebecca Prime
Hollywood Exiles in Europe
Rutgers University Press
January 2014
Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors
who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and
1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European
productions, their contributions ranging from crime film masterpieces like Du rififi chez les
hommes (1955, Jules Dassin, director) to international blockbusters like The Bridge on the River
Kwai (1957, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, screenwriters) and acclaimed art films like The
Servant (1963, Joseph Losey, director).
At once a lively portrait of a lesser-known American “lost generation” and an examination of an
important transitional moment in European cinema, the book offers a compelling argument for
the significance of the blacklisted émigrés to our understanding of postwar American and
European cinema and Cold War relations.
Simplified Chinese Rights Sold (Beijing Yanziyue )
Yael Raviv
Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel
University of Nebraska Press
Fall 2015
Focusing on the period between the 1905 immigration wave and the Six-Day War in 1967, Raviv
explores foodways from the field, factory, market, and kitchen to the table. She incorporates the
role of women, ethnic groups, and different generations into the story of Zionism and offers new
assertions from a secular-foodie perspective on the relationship between Jewish religion and
Jewish nationalism. A study of the changes in food practices and in attitudes toward food and
cooking, Falafel Nation explains how the change in the relationship between Israelis and their
food mirrors the search for a definition of modern Jewish nationalism.
Maggie Heyn Richardson
Hungry for Louisiana
Louisiana State University Press
March 2015
Food sets the tempo of life in the Bayou State, where people believed in eating locally and
seasonally long before it was fashionable. In Hungry for Louisiana: An Omnivore's Journey
award-winning journalist Maggie Heyn Richardson takes readers to local farms, meat markets,
restaurants, festivals, culinary competitions, and roadside vendors to reveal the love, pride, and
cultural importance of Louisiana’s traditional and evolving cuisine.
Focusing on eight of the state’s most emblematic foods—crawfish, jambalaya, snoballs, Creole
cream cheese, filé, blood boudin, tamales, and oysters—Richardson provides a fresh look at
Louisiana’s long culinary history. In addition to concluding each chapter with corresponding
recipes, these vignettes not only celebrate local foodways but also acknowledge the complicated
dynamic between maintaining local traditions and managing agricultural and social change.
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Suzanne Roberts
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
University of Nebraska Press
2012
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just
finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the
adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the
future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part
memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike.
John Muir had written of the Sierra Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and this was exactly what
Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and
the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of
reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry—confronting bears, snowy passes, broken
equipment, injuries, and strange men—is as much about finding a woman’s way into outdoor
experience as it is about the natural world she so eloquently describes.
Complex Chinese to Mangrove.
David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu
Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Rutgers University Press
April 2015
Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or
hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically
examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive,
in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the
discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk
novels, from Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly. Applying a variety of theoretical,
historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global
phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express
and assuage Western anxieties about Asia’s growing cultural influence and economic dominance.
Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to
critique racist and imperialist attitudes.
Techno-Orientalism is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that
pervades both science fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects
ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian
American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative
perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies.
Cornelius Ryan
The Longest Day
Simon & Schuster (2010)
Sequels, The Last Battle and A Bridge Too Far are also available!
The Longest Day is one of the best-selling military history books of all time, having sold around
30 million copies in 18 languages. Its author, war journalist Cornelius Ryan, created a new style
of military-history writing based on interview research with hundreds of battle participants. The
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book was made into the legendary war movie in 1962 by 20th Century Fox, transforming The
Longest Day into a brand that appeals to the widest possible market around the world.
Rights to THE LONGEST DAY have sold in Japanese (Hayakawa), Dutch (Just Publishers)
Portuguese in Brazil (L&PM Editores), Portuguese in Portugal (Casa Das Letras), Italian (RCS
Libri Spa), Chinese Simplified(The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Publishing House),
Swedish (Albert Bonniers Forlag), UK(I.B. Tauris), Czech (Nase Vojsko), Korean (Ilchokak)
THE LAST BATTLE rights sold in German (WBG Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
Cornelius Ryan
The Longest Day: The D-Day 70th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
Carlton Publishing group
May 2014
June 6, 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops landed along a
50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany and essentially spur
the campaign that would end World War II. Nowhere are the landings at Normandy captured
more eloquently and dramatically than in Cornelius Ryan's classic book The Longest Day.
Widely considered to be the most important book on D-Day ever written, The Longest Day has
sold tens of millions of copies in 18 different languages, and inspired a star-studded 1962 film by
the same name.
This new collector's edition of The Longest Day commemorates the 70th anniversary of the
invasion with previously unpublished printed and audio archive material. Inside the beautifully
designed slipcase, readers will find an unabridged reprint of the classic text, 120 meticulously
researched photographs of D-Day, plus 30 previously unseen and unpublished removable
facsimile documents from Ryan's own archive, including:
• Eisenhower's handwritten note, taking responsibility if the D-Day landings failed
• Interview transcripts and handwritten research questionnaires from key D-Day participants
• Rommel's diary excerpts from the lead-up to D-Day in May 1944
• Hand-annotated translations of German diaries and telephone logs
• D-Day mission weather reports
• Ryan's original book proposal to Reader's Digest explaining his new approach to military
history writing
• Six full-color battle maps
Historians, military enthusiasts, and anyone who genuinely loves tales of adventure and courage
will be thrilled by this unsurpassed collection of D-Day memorabilia. It includes an exclusive
audio CD featuring Ryan's previously unheard, original research interviews with many of DDay's senior commanders, including Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well
as the soldiers, paratroopers, sailors, and airmen who fought in this most famous and decisive
battle of World War II.
The rights to the special edition are available in collaboration with M&O and Carlton Books.
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John R. Schindler
Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
University of Nebraska Press
December 2015
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive
battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the battle for Galicia in August 1914—and
the unprecedented carnage that resulted—effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just
six weeks into the war.
In Fall of the Double Eagle, John R. Schindler explains how Austria-Hungary, despite military
weakness and the foreseeable ill consequences, consciously chose war in that fateful summer of
1914. Through close examination of the Austro-Hungarian military, especially its elite general
staff, Schindler shows how even a war that Vienna would likely lose appeared preferable to the
“foul peace” the senior generals loathed. After Serbia outgunned the polyglot empire in a
humiliating defeat, and the offensive into Russian Poland ended in the massacre of more than four
hundred thousand Austro-Hungarians in just three weeks, the empire never recovered. While
Austria-Hungary’s ultimate defeat and dissolution were postponed until the autumn of 1918, the
late summer of 1914 on the plains and hills of Galicia sealed its fate.
Now Available for the first time in decades! International Bestselling novel and subject of an
Emmy Award Winning film.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
Sybil
Grand Central Publishing
2009 (reissue)
You're about to meet Sybil-and the sixteen selves to whom she played host, both women and
men, each with a different personality, speech pattern, and even personal appearance. You'll
experience the strangeness and fascination of one woman's rare affliction-and travel with her on
her long, ultimately triumphant journey back to wholeness.
More amazing than any work of fiction, yet true in every word, it swept to the top of the
bestseller lists and riveted the consciousness of the world. As an Emmy Award-winning film
starring Sally Field, it captured the home screens of an entire nation and has endured as the most
electrifying TV movie ever made. It's the story of a survivor of terrifying childhood abuse, victim
of sudden and mystifying blackouts, and the first case of multiple personality ever to be
psychoanalyzed.
Rights sold in Russian (Azbooka – Atticus Publishers), Turkish (E yayinlari) and Simplified
Chinese (Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing),
Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch
From Gods to God
University of Nebraska Press (JPS imprint)
December 2012
The people of ancient Israel believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget:
myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide,
or reinterpret. This book unearths stories to recover some of those myths and legends and to show
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how the Bible transformed oral stories to fit a monotheistic world in which God was singularly
omniscient.
David K. Shipler
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (Revised Edition)
Broadway Books
November 2015
The expanded and updated edition of David Shipler's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that examines
the relationship, past and present, between Arabs and Jews
In this monumental work, extensively researched and more relevant than ever, David Shipler
delves into the origins of the prejudices that exist between Jews and Arabs that have been
intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism.
Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories,
Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging
effects of socioeconomic differences, historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes
about the Holocaust, and much more. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a
Jew, the retired Israeli military officer, the Palestinian guerrilla, the handsome actor whose father
is Arab and whose mother is Jewish.
For Shipler, and for all who read this book, their stories and hundreds of others reflect not only
the reality of "wounded spirits" but also a glimmer of hope for eventual coexistence in the
Promised Land.
Chinese (Simplified) rights sold to Shanghai Sanhui Culture and Press Ltd.
Mark Solovey
Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
Rutgers University Press
March 2015
Shaky Foundations provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the
social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and took more definite shape during the
1950s and early 1960s, a period of enormous expansion in American social science. By focusing
on the military, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, Mark Solovey shows
how this patronage system presented social scientists and other interested parties, including
natural scientists and politicians, with new opportunities to work out the scientific identity, social
implications, and public policy uses of academic social research.
Based on extensive archival research, Shaky Foundations addresses fundamental questions about
the intellectual foundations of the social sciences, their relationships with the natural sciences and
the humanities, and the political and ideological import of academic social inquiry.
"Shaky Foundations impressively pulls back the curtain on American social scientists and their
complex relationships with funding agencies, offering crucial insights into the past—and the
future—of social science."
—David C. Engerman, author of Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet
Experts
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Claudia Springer and Julie Levinson
Acting
Rutgers University Press
August 2015
The chapters in Acting provide a fascinating, in-depth look at the history of film acting, from its
inception in 1895 when spectators thrilled at the sight of vaudeville performers, Wild West stars,
and athletes captured in motion, to the present when audiences marvel at the seamless blend of
human actors with CGI. Experts in the field take readers behind the silver screen to learn about
the craft of film acting in six eras: the silent screen (1895–1928), classical Hollywood (1928–
1946), postwar Hollywood (1947–1967), the auteur renaissance (1968–1980), the New
Hollywood (1981–1999), and the modern entertainment marketplace (2000–present). The
contributors pay special attention to definitive performances by notable film stars, including
Lillian Gish, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Beulah Bondi, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Jack
Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Nicholas Cage, Denzel Washington, and Andy Serkis. In six original
essays, the contributors to this volume illuminate the dynamic role of acting in the creation and
evolving practices of the American film industry.
50th Anniversary Edition!!
John Steinbeck
Travels With Charley
Penguin
Fall 2012 (reissue)
At the age of fifty-eight, John Steinbeck sets out with his French poodle, Charley, to rediscover
the country he had been writing about for so many years. They drive the interstates and the
country roads, dine with truckers, encounter bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San
Francisco. And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of
American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers
that is also a very real part of our national identity. This special 50th Anniversary edition includes
a new introduction by Jay Parini.
Rights sold in Spanish (Nordica Libros), Romanian (Polirom)
John Steinbeck (Author) and Thomas E. Barden (Editor)
Steinbeck in Vietnam
University of Virginia Press (Controls rights to introduction and additional materials)
December 2012
Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes
of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-era works of social
struggle. But from Pearl Harbor on, he often wrote passionate accounts of America’s wars based
on his own firsthand experience. Vietnam was no exception.
Thomas E. Barden’s Steinbeck in Vietnam offers for the first time a complete collection of the
dispatches Steinbeck wrote as a war correspondent for Newsday. Rejected by the military because
of his reputation as a subversive, and reticent to document the war officially for the Johnson
administration, Steinbeck saw in Newsday a unique opportunity to put his skills to use. Between
December 1966 and May 1967, the sixty-four-year-old Steinbeck toured the major combat areas
of South Vietnam and traveled to the north of Thailand and into Laos, documenting his
experiences in a series of columns titled Letters to Alicia, in reference to Newsday publisher
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Harry F. Guggenheim’s deceased wife. His columns were controversial, coming at a time when
opposition to the conflict was growing and even ardent supporters were beginning to question its
course. As he dared to go into the field, rode in helicopter gunships, and even fired artillery
pieces, many detractors called him a warmonger and worse. Readers today might be surprised
that the celebrated author would risk his literary reputation to document such a divisive war,
particularly at the end of his career.
Rights sold in French (Editions Belles Les Lettres)
John Steinbeck
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team
Penguin
Summer 2009 (reissue)
In 1942, John Steinbeck spent several weeks at 20 airfields with the men of the bomber crews
during WWII. Bombs Away is a remarkable piece of journalism and the most elaborate treatment
of Steinbeck's so called 'phalanx' theory: his interest in what happens when people work together
as a collective.
Holocaust Icons
Oren Baruch Stier
Rutgers University Press
November 2015
The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful
symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise
incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty
black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these
symbolic relics left in the Holocaust’s wake.
In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the
defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but
also the profound nature of historical memory itself.
Reporting the Cuban Revolution
Leonard Teel
LSU Press
December 2015
Reporting the Cuban Revolution reveals the untold story of thirteen American journalists in Cuba
whose stories about Fidel Castro’s revolution changed the way Americans viewed the conflict
and altered U.S. foreign policy in Castro’s favor.
Between 1956 and 1959, the thirteen correspondents worked underground in Cuba, evading the
repressive censorship of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in order to report on the rebellion led by
Fidel Castro. The journalists’ stories appeared in major newspapers and magazines and on
national television and radio, influencing Congress to abruptly cut off shipments of arms to
Batista in 1958. Castro was so appreciative of the journalists’ efforts to publicize his rebellion
that on his first visit to the United States as premier of Cuba, he invited the reporters to a private
reception at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, where he presented them with engraved gold
medals.
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While the medals revealed Castro’s perception of the correspondents as like-minded partisans, the
journalists themselves had no such intentions. Some had journeyed to Cuba in pursuit of scoops
that could rejuvenate or jump-start their careers; others sought to promote press freedom in Latin
America; still others were simply carrying out assignments from their editors. Bringing to light
the disparate motives and experiences of the thirteen journalists who reported on this crucial
period in Cuba’s history, Reporting the Cuban Revolution is both a masterwork of narrative
nonfiction and a deft analysis of the tension between propaganda and objectivity in the work of
American foreign correspondents.
Jason P. Theriot
American Energy, Imperiled Coast
Louisiana State University Press
April 2014
In the post World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation
that placed the region at the center of America's energy-producing corridor. By the twenty-first
century the Louisiana Gulf Coast supplied nearly one-third of America's oil and gas, accounted
for half of the country's refining capacity, and contributed billions of dollars to the U.S. economy.
Today, thousands of miles of pipelines and related infrastructure link the state's coast to oil and
gas consumers nationwide. During the course of this historic development, however, the dredging
of pipeline canals accelerated coastal erosion. Currently, 80 percent of the United States' wetland
loss occurs on Louisiana's coast despite the fact that the state is home to only 40 percent of the
nation's wetland acreage, making evident the enormous unin-tended environmental cost
associated with producing energy from the Gulf Coast.
Violence in Capitalism
James A. Tyner
University of Nebraska Press
Fall 2015
Approaching violence as one of several methods of constituting space, Tyner examines
everything from the way police departments map crime to the emergence of “environmental
criminology.” Throughout, he casts violence in broad terms—as a realm that is not limited to
criminal acts and one that can be divided into the categories of “killing” and “letting die.” His
framework extends the study of biopolitics by examining the state’s role in producing (or failing
to produce) a healthy citizenry. It also adds to the new literature on capitalism by articulating the
interconnections between violence and political economy. Simply put, capitalism (especially its
neoliberal and neoconservative variants) is structured around a valuation of life that fosters a
particular abstraction of violence and crime.
Christina Vella
George Washington Carver
LSU Press
September 2015
Nearly every American can cite at least one of the accomplishments of George Washington
Carver. The many tributes honoring his contributions to scientific advancement and black history
include a national monument bearing his name, a U.S.-minted coin featuring his likeness, and
induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Born into slavery, Carver earned a master’s
degree at Iowa State Agricultural College and went on to become that university’s first black
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faculty member. A keen painter who chose agricultural studies over art, his research into peanuts
and sweet potatoes—crops that would replenish the cotton-leached soil of the South—helped
spare multitudes of sharecroppers from poverty.
In pursuit of the man behind the historical figure, Vella discovers an unassuming intellectual with
a quirky sense of humor, striking eccentricities, and an unwavering religious faith. She explores
Carver’s anguished dealings with Booker T. Washington across their nineteen years working
together at the Tuskegee Institute—a turbulent partnership often fraught with jealousy. Uneasy in
personal relationships, Carver lost one woman he loved to suicide and, years later, directed his
devotion toward a white man.
A prodigious and generous scholar whose life was shaped by struggle and heartbreak as well as
success and fame, George Washington Carver remains a key figure in the history of southern
agriculture, botanical advancement, and the struggle for civil rights. Vella’s extensively
researched biography offers a complex and compelling portrait of one of the most brilliant men of
the last century.
Producing Excellence: The Making of Virtuosos
Izabella Wagner
Rutgers University Press
September 2015
Driven by a passion for music, for excellence, and for fame, violin soloists are immersed from
early childhood in high-pressure competitions, regular public appearances, and arduous daily
practice. An in-depth study of nearly one hundred such children, Producing Excellence
illuminates the process these young violinists undergo to become elite international soloists.
A musician and a parent of a young violinist, sociologist Izabela Wagner offers an inside look at
how her young subjects set out on the long road to becoming a soloist. The remarkable research
she conducted—at rehearsals, lessons, and in other educational settings—enabled her to gain deep
insight into what distinguishes these talented prodigies and their training. She notes, for instance,
the importance of a family culture steeped in the values of the musical world. Indeed, more than
half of these students come from a family of professional musicians and were raised in an
atmosphere marked by the importance of instrumental practice, the vitality of music as a
vocation, and especially the veneration of famous artists. Wagner also highlights the highly
structured, rigorous training system of identifying, nurturing, and rewarding talent, even as she
underscores the social, economic, and cultural factors that make success in this system possible.
Barbara Mann Wall
Into Africa
Rutgers University Press
September 2015
The most dramatic growth of Christianity in the late twentieth century has occurred in Africa,
where Catholic missions have played major roles. But these missions did more than simply
convert Africans. Catholic sisters became heavily involved in the Church’s health services and
eventually in relief and social justice efforts. In Into Africa, Barbra Mann Wall offers a
transnational history that reveals how Catholic medical and nursing sisters established
relationships between local and international groups, sparking an exchange of ideas that crossed
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national, religious, gender, and political boundaries.
Arthur Waskow
Seasons of Our Joy: A Modern Guide to the Jewish Holidays
University of Nebraska Press (JPS imprint)
September 1991
Circling the Jewish calendar from Rosh Hashanah to Tisha B'Av, this lively, accessible guide
includes rituals, recipes, songs, prayers, and suggestions for new approaches to holiday
observance.
J.C. Wylie
Military Strategy
University of Nebraska Press
November 1989
In "Military Strategy" Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie invented the intellectual framework and
terminology with which to understand strategy as a means of control. He synthesized the four
existing specific theories of strategy into one general theory that is as valid today as when it was
first created. Wylie has written a penetrating new postscript especially for this "Classics of Sea
Power" edition that takes an up-to-the-minute look at such topics as terrorism, Nicaraguan
politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. To supplement the text, John Hattendorg's
introduction presents a detailed intellectual biography of Wylie. In addition, several of Wylie's
most significant shorter writings are included as appendixes.
English paperback and electronic rights sold.
Robert Zemsky
Checklist for Change
Rutgers University Press
August 2013
Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that
includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the
influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and
intrusive policies. Checklist for Change not only diagnoses these problems, but also provides
constructive recommendations for practical change.
"In Zemsky's blunt and accessible new book, he delivers a refreshing vision and outline for
reforming American higher education that is neither starry-eyed nor hopeless, and thankfully free
of neo-inspirational screed, flowery rhetoric, or a call-to-arms ending. His diagnosis of and
solutions to escalating costs, improving scholarship, and raising completion rates are thoughtprovoking, and he cites many real-life innovations."
—Publishers Weekly
"This book is a call to arms—a compelling and challenging synthesis of the experiences, analysis,
and wisdom of a leader in higher education policy."
—James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan
Chinese rights sold.
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ADULT FICTION
Kahlen Aymes
The Future of Our Past
Telemachus Press, LLC
April 2012
Julia Abbot and Ryan Matthews have been inseparable best friends since the moment they met.
Each of them fight an internal battle, unwilling to risk their incredible friendship, but unable to
quell their deep longing for the other. On the verge of Ryan's departure to Harvard Medical
School and Julia's for her new job on the opposite coast, they are forced to face the undeniable
truth of their deeper feelings and find themselves enthralled in a passion like neither has ever
known.
The lovers are faced with forced separation, great distances and others who try to sabotage their
relationship as both of them work to build the shared future they both dream of. When their lives
begin to finally gel, Julia is offered a promotion that will catapult her career to new heights. Ryan
is left angry and bereft as it will only postpone their reunion yet again. In light of the sacrifices
she has made for him, he can hardly deny her, and Julia is faced with the most difficult decision
of her life. Will she choose the chance of a lifetime or the love of her life?
The Future of Our Past is the first book in The Remembrance Trilogy, a truly transcendent love
story of a powerful and passionate connection, like we all dream of.
French Rights sold to City Editions.
Kahlen Aymes
Don’t Forget to Remember Me
Telemachus Press, LLC
August 2012
Ryan Matthews has everything he ever wanted. Close to graduation from Harvard Medical
School and on the verge of marrying his gorgeous and accomplished girlfriend, Julia Abbott, his
dreams are about to come true and all of their sacrifice is finally at it's end. When tragedy strikes,
their relationship is hurled into turmoil that leaves Ryan devastated. His sorrow drives him to
keep his distance yet leaves him aching; consumed with desire and love he refuses to let manifest.
Julia is inexplicably drawn to Ryan and longs to build a future with him, but his agony over the
loss of the heart-stopping memories she no longer shares with him, leaves him unable to trust that
she could truly love him without the brilliant past he clings to. When love so unforgettable has
been forgotten, can Ryan find enough faith to believe that Julia's heart will remember, even when
her mind can't? The second book of The Remembrance Trilogy follows Ryan and Julia's quest to
rebuild their stunning past. An incredibly beautiful and heart-breaking romance, full of passion,
intensity and truly immeasurable love that will leave you spellbound, breathless and longing for
more...
French Rights sold to City Editions.
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Kahlen Aymes
A Love Like This
Telemachus Press
June 2013
Finally together, Ryan and Julia settle in New York City, Ryan beginning his residency at a
hospital in Manhattan where Julia is working at Vogue Magazine. They are happy, but their busy
schedules make time together scarce. During a trip to Boston for Aaron and Jenna's wedding,
Ryan and Julia share some much needed time alone and decide it's time to begin their family.
They soon discover all is not well between Julia's best friend, Ellie, and her beau, Harris. Later,
when Ellie calls Julia, her situation with Harris escalating, Julia rushes to L.A. to console her
friend, which unfortunately coincides with Ryan's time off and an optimal conception
opportunity. He is angry and picks up another shift during which a gang rushes the ER to kill off
a gunshot victim Ryan is treating. Julia manages a late flight, but returns to hear breaking news of
the trouble at the hospital. Frantic she rushes to the scene to find Ryan and others, some critically,
injured. The days and months that follow find a grateful Ryan and Julia befriending the nurse
who saved Ryan's life, in the absence of her boyfriend and families concern. As she recovers, the
nurse, Jane, becomes more reliant on Ryan's presence in her life. Julia is torn; the gratitude she
feels is conflicted with resentment when the other woman tries to get closer to Ryan. A faithful
Ryan sees Julia's withdrawal as distrust and fights ensue, despite his attempts to show where his
heart truly lies. Jane pushes the limits until Julia breaks. Hurt and angry over Ryan's excuses for
Jane's behavior Julia realizes that she will be unable to witness more of the same and leaves
without telling Ryan where she is going or when she will return. When Ryan finds her gone
without a word, he is shaken, and frantically tries to find her. He is lost without Julia, and works
himself into the ground, unable to stand being home without her. Ryan's work begins to suffer
and he and Julia both have to face what sacrifices they are willing to make to for each other and
to save the mad love they share. Join Ryan and Julia in the heart-wrenching conclusion to The
Remembrance Trilogy, an epic love worth every single sacrifice...
French rights sold to City Editions
Kahlen Aymes
Angel After Dark
Telemachus Press
January 2014
Dr. Angeline Hemming is a beautiful, sassy, no-nonsense type of girl who has risen from a
difficult past to become one of Chicago's most successful and respected criminal profilers. In
exchange for free commercials to promote her favorite charitable causes; Angel answers calls and
gives relationship advice on a Friday night radio program. Alexander Avery is a gorgeous and
successful corporate genius, who doesn't believe in love. When his girl-friend-of-convenience
calls into Angel's program, he is furious with the show host who doles out, what he considers
blind advice, without knowing all the facts... and he decides to give her a piece of his mind and
his side of the story! When Angel informs Alex he's the one in need of a much deserved lesson,
all hell breaks loose as these two type A personalities battle it out for control over minds, hearts
and yes, in bed. Not only are they fighting each other at every turn, but struggle to uphold the
convictions they each live by. It's unclear who is stronger, but both must discover, that to get
what they desperately want, they may have to give a little... or a lot.
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COMING SOON!
Prequel to The Remembrance Trilogy
Kahlen Aymes
December 2015
Cheryl Bradshaw - #1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author!
Eye for Revenge
Pixie Publishing
June 2015
Something unusual is happening to Quinn Montgomery. Trapped inside her unconscious mind,
the sound of her father’s soothing voice seeps through, and the past twenty-four hours comes
flooding back. She wakes to find herself in the hospital. Her childhood best friend Evie is dead.
But not just dead, murdered, and Evie’s four-year-old son witnessed it all. Traumatized over what
he saw, he’s not talking. And when Evie’s cold-blooded killer goes into hiding, Quinn isn’t only
out for justice, she’s out for revenge.
Cheryl Bradshaw - #1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author!
Black Diamond Death (#1 in the Sloane Monroe Series)
Createspace
March 2011
A skier crashes on the slopes of Park City, Utah's newest ski resort a woman is found dead. At
first glance, it has all the makings of an accident. But what if wasn't? What if she was murdered?
Just as Private Investigator Sloane Monroe feels she's close to solving the case, a second dead
body is found. With the killer aware that Sloane will stop at nothing to find him, her life is in
danger, her every move being tracked. Will Sloane uncover the truth before he strikes again?
More titles in the Sloane Monroe Series:
Sinnerman
I Have a Secret
Stranger in Town
Bed of Bones
Hush Now Baby
Cheryl Bradshaw - New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author!
Grayson Manor Haunting (#1 in the Addison Lockhart Series)
Pixie Publishing
March 2013
When Addison Lockhart inherits Grayson Manor after her mother's untimely death, she unlocks a
secret that’s been kept hidden for over fifty years. For Addison, it seems like she’s finally found
the house of her dreams…until the spirit of Roxanne “Roxy” Rafferty comes to call.
Who is Roxanne, why is she haunting Grayson Manor, and how will Addison’s connection reveal
a key to her own past that she thought no longer existed?
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More titles in the Addison Lockhart Series
Rosecliff Manor Haunting
New York Times Bestseller!
Eleanor Brown
The Weird Sisters
Amy Einhorn Books
Winter 2011
Rights with Amy Einhorn Books
Unlucky in work, love and life, the Andreas sisters return to their childhood home in the small
university town of Barnwell, to both care for their ailing mother and lick their own wounds. Their
father - an eccentric professor of Shakespeare who communicates almost exclusively in
Shakespearean verse - named all three girls for great Shakespearean women - Rose (Rosalind),
Bean (Bianca), and Cordy (Cordelia); as a result, the girls find that they have a lot to live up to.
With this burden, as well as others they shoulder, the Andreas sisters have a difficult time
communicating with both their parents and lovers, but especially with each other. What can the
homebody and commitment-shy eldest sister, the fast-living and mysterious middle child, and the
bohemian youngest sibling have in common? To their surprise, THE WEIRD SISTERS are more
similar than they ever imagined. Yet, can all three sisters escape their archetypal roots and find
happiness in a normal life? As it turns out, the small town of Barnwell has much more to offer
then they ever expected.
Rights sold in Italian (Mondadori), UK (Harper Collins), German, (Suhrkhamp), Norwegian
(Pantagruel Forlag), Hungarian (Athenaeum Kiado), Portuguese (Editora Paz E Terra S. A.),
Spanish (Roca Editorial), and French (Marabout).
Winner of the Prarie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction!
Karen Brown
University of Nebraska Press
Little Sinners
Fall 2011
Karen Brown’s Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and
men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban
landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of
the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit—and disappears. The dead
leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories
part of the characters’ own: an expectant mother in an isolated cottage on Long Island Sound
uncovers an unsettling secret in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by a
teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious circumstances; a woman and her lover
swim the pools of their neighborhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles with
mortality and the abandonments in her past.
These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise—a world where women’s
roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the
characters fashion, recklessly and passionately, their own methods of escape.
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Erskine Caldwell
God’s Little Acre
Tobacco Road
Journeyman
The Sacrilege of Alan Kent
Trouble in July
Georgia Boy
Tragic Ground
A House In the Uplands
The Sure Hand of God
This Very Earth
A Place Called Estherville
A Swell Looking Girl
Episode In Palmentto
A Lamp For Nightfall
Love and Money
Gretta
Claudelle Inglish
Jenny By Nature
The Last Night of Summer
Miss Mama Aimee
Annette
and more…
Philippa Carr
The Daughters of England Series (19 Titles)
Winter 2013 (reissue)
Open Road Integrated Media (eBook only)
Philippa Carr, is the Bestselling Author of historical romance and pen name for prolific English
author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Jean Plaidy. With the rerelease of these timeless novels in
eBook format, Carr’s rich historical detail and passionate romance is available to a new
generation of readers. Eleanor is an International Bestseller with more than a million copies sold
worldwide.
Bryn Chancellor
When Are You Coming Home?: Stories
University of Nebraska Press
Fall 2015
Humans have always connected deeply to the idea of home. In Bryn Chancellor’s nine stories,
home means, in part, the physical spaces: the buildings, cities and towns, the fragile, imperious
landscapes of the region. But home is also profoundly rooted in intangibles. Set in urban and rural
Arizona, home, for the characters in these stories, is love—familial, romantic, and unrequited. It
is loss and grief. It is the memories that surface late at night. It is mystery and longing and a
shining flicker of hope.
In the title story, a locksmith prowls empty houses and befriends a young mother as he and his
wife grapple with a tragedy perpetrated by their son. During an overseas trip, a daughter grieving
for her father struggles with her mother’s altered appearance; an irrigation worker meets a
troubled teenage girl in the darkness of her flooded yard; and a daughter and her estranged, ailing
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mother stay in a dilapidated cabin while a mountain lion stalks the woods. Through chance
meetings between strangers, collisions within families, and confrontations with the self, these
characters leave and return, time and again, trying desperately to find their way home.
Nichole Christoff
The Kill Box (#3 in the Jamie Sinclair Series)
Random House
October 2015
In an intense thriller that’s perfect for fans of Lee Child or Lisa Gardner, security specialist and PI
Jamie Sinclair tackles a cold case that could cost her the one person who means the most to her.
Hardworking Jamie Sinclair can’t wait for the weekend. She plans to be off the clock and on the
road to wine country with handsome military police officer Adam Barrett. But when a strung-out
soldier takes an innocent woman hostage and forces his way into Jamie’s bedroom, everything
changes. Jamie’s never seen the soldier before. But he’s no stranger to Barrett—and with one
word he persuades Barrett to pack a duffel and leave Jamie in the lurch.
Jamie cannot fathom why Barrett would abandon her without explanation. But as the
consequences of an unsolved crime threaten to catch up with him, a late-night phone call sends
Jamie racing to Barrett’s hometown in upstate New York. In a tinderbox of shattered trust and
long-buried secrets, Jamie must fight to uncover the truth about what really occurred one terrible
night twenty years ago. And the secrets she discovers deep in Barrett’s past not only threaten their
future together—they just might get her killed.
Other titles in the Jamie Sinclair Series
The Kill List (#1)
The Kill Shot (#2)
Praise for Nichole Christoff’s Jamie Sinclair novels
“Intelligent and fast-paced, Nichole Christoff’s debut thriller takes off like a rocket and never
slows down. I read The Kill List in a single sitting.”—New York Times bestselling author Karen
Rose
“Thanks to Christoff’s labyrinth-style of intrigue and mystery, the enjoyment is in trying to solve
the puzzle. Good luck, because in The Kill Shot, Christoff doesn’t make the adventure a cake
walk. She understands how to keep her readers riveted from beginning to end.”—USA Today
Foreign rights with Random House
Lauren Clark
Center of Gravity
Thomas Nelson
July 2015
Ava Carson's life in Tennessee appears nearly perfect after her recent marriage to the powerful
and handsome Mitchell Carson. Ava loves her husband and the family they have created. Even
Mitchell's young son from a previous marriage, Jack, with his superhero ambitions, can't imagine
life without Ava. Outwardly, Mitchell appears to be a caring husband and doting father, but as
Ava soon discovers there is a dark side to Mitchell Carson that she never imagined. When
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Graham Thomas, a lawyer with a secret past, stumbles into Ava's life everything changes.
Mitchell's jealous streak emerges after an innocent encounter between Graham and Ava, and
Mitchell soon convinces himself that Ava is unfaithful. When Mitchell starts divorce proceedings
and a custody war, Jack is caught in the middle which soon make him question Ava's pure
intentions. As Ava searches for a way to save her family she begins to uncovers her husband's
secret past and capacity for unhinged jealousy and rage.
Foreign rights with Thomas Nelson.
Tillie Cole
Sweet Home
Self-Published
Fall 2013
At age twenty, Molly Shakespeare knows a lot.
She knows Descartes and Kant.
She knows academia and Oxford.
She knows that the people who love you leave you.
She knows how to be alone.
But when Molly leaves England's grey skies behind to start a new life at the University of
Alabama, she finds that she has a lot to learn — she didn't know a summer could be so hot, she
didn't know students could be so intimidating, and she certainly didn't know just how much the
folks of Alabama love their football.
When a chance encounter with notorious star quarterback, Romeo Prince, leaves her unable to
think of anything but his chocolate-brown eyes, dirty-blond hair and perfect physique, Molly
soon realises that her quiet, solitary life is about to dramatically change forever...
Mature New Adult novel — contains adult content, highly sexual situations and mature topics.
Suited for ages 18 and up*
Tillie Cole
Sweet Rome (Book #2)
Self-Published
January 2014
You met Romeo Prince in the Amazon & USA Today bestselling novel, Sweet Home. Now hear
the story from his lips: unbarred, uncensored, and raw to the bone.
It makes me laugh when I hear folks think Molly and I rushed into it too fast, spouting that we
couldn't possibly have felt what we did for each other in such a short space of time. I say, how the
hell would they know? We made it, didn't we? She became my whole life, didn't she? And as for
my folks not being real, being true? Tell that to me aged ten, eleven, twelve—damn, all my
bastard life—when I was never enough, when I was beaten until I bled for being too good at
football and not being everything they'd dreamed: the perfectly dutiful son. Tell that to thousands
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of kids around the world getting wailed on by asshole parents for whatever stupid reason; tell
them evil don't exist in their eyes.
Fuck Romeo and Juliet. This is the story of me and my girl, from my lips. No mushy sentiment,
no cheese, just the plain, hard truth, and, because I'm feeling generous, I'm going to let you in on
more of our story too.
Sweet Rome is a New Adult Companion Novel to Sweet Home—contains adult content, sexual
situations, and mature topics. Suited for ages 18 and up.
Tillie Cole
Raze
St. Martin’s Press
January 2015
One woman stripped of her freedom, her morals… her life. Kisa Volkova is the only daughter of
Kirill ‘The Silencer’ Volkov, head of the infamous ‘Red’ bosses of New York's Russian Bratva.
Her life is protected. In reality, it’s a virtual prison. Her father’s savage treatment of his rivals and
his lucrative and coveted underground gambling ring—The Dungeon—ensures too many enemies
lurk at their door. She dreams to be set free. Kisa has known only cruelty and loss in her short
life. As manager of her father’s death match enterprise, only grief and pain fill her days. Her
mafiya boss father, in her world, rules absolute. And her fiancé, Alik Durov, is no better: The
Dungeon’s five-time champion, a stone-cold killer, the treasured son of her father’s best friend,
and her very own—and much resented—personal guard. Unrivaled in both strength and social
standing, Alik controls every facet of Kisa’s life, dominates her every move; keeps her subdued
and dead inside… then one night changes everything. While working for her church—the only
reprieve in her constant surveillance—Kisa stumbles across a tattooed, scarred, but stunningly
beautiful homeless man on the streets. Something about him stirs feelings deep within her;
familiar yet impossibly forbidden desires. He doesn’t talk. Doesn’t communicate with anyone.
He’s a man beyond saving, and a man she must quickly forget… for both their sakes. But when
days later, out of the blue and to her complete surprise, he’s announced as the replacement fighter
in The Dungeon, Kisa knows she’s in a whole lot of trouble. He’s built, ripped and lethally
unforgiving to his opponents, leaving fear in his wake and the look of death in his eyes. Kisa
becomes obsessed with him. Yearns for him. Craves his touch. Needs to possess this mysterious
man... … this man they call Raze.
Piatkus/ Little Brown UK, German rights to Lyx/Egmont
Tillie Cole
Reap
St. Martin’s Press
November 2015
Ravage and Riot in the Scarred Sould series coming in 2016!
Raised as a prototype for the Georgian Bratva's obedience drug, 221 fails to think, act, or live for
himself; he's his master's perfectly-crafted killing puppet. Standing at six-foot-six, weighing twohundred-and-fifty pounds, and unrivaled in to-the-death combat, 221 successfully secures
business for the Georgian Mafiya Boss of NYC, who rules the dark world of the criminal
underground. Until his enemies capture him.
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Talia Tolstaia dreams to break from the heavy clutches of Bratva life. She dreams of another life-away from the stifling leash of her Russian Bratva Boss father and from the brutality of her work
at The Dungeon, her criminal family's underground death-match enterprise. But when she
stumbles upon her family's captive who is more monster than man, she starts to see the man
underneath. A powerful, beautiful, damaged man whose heart calls to hers. But sacrifices must be
made--blood for blood...life for life...souls for scarred souls...
National Bestseller!
Kimberly Frost
Would-Be Witch
Berkley
February 2009 (Rerelease November 2014!)
Would-Be Witch is a fun, urban fantasy that tells the story of a modern girl whose magical
powers seemed to have skipped a generation. Tammy Jo, a sassy and determined, though not
especially capable 20-something, is reluctantly forced to tap her untrained spellmaking skills
when zombies, vampires and werewolves invade her small, Texan town. In battling the evil
forces, Tammy Jo finds herself seeking the help of a powerful, sexy warlock, Bryn Lyons.
Unfortunately, the Lyons family has always been strictly off-limits-- for reasons unknown to
Tammy Jo. To complicate matters even further, she is stuck choosing between Bryn and Zach,
Tammy Jo’s on-again/off-again love, her gorgeous, detective ex-husband. As the plot unfolds,
Tammy Jo learns that her quiet and simple Texan town is not what it seems. She discovers it is
actually a hotbed for supernatural forces. As Tammy Jo gets closer to the truth, she realizes that
the apparent evil forces are not the worst of her enemies. Will she figure out who the real villains
are before it is too late?
"Kimberly Frost makes a delightful debut with Would-Be Witch. It's witty, sexy, and wildly
imaginative. Great fun to read. A terrific new series from a wonderful new author."
--Nancy Pickard, Agatha award-winning author
Sequel to the National Bestselling title, WOULD-BE WITCH!
Kimberly Frost
Barely Bewitched
Berkley
September 2009 (Re-release January 2014)
New witch Tammy Jo Trask has just unleashed an accidental Armageddon...Oops.
Tammy Jo's misfiring magic has attracted the unwanted attention of WAM, the World
Association of Magic. Now, a wand-wielding wizard and a menacing fire warlock have come to
Duvall to train her for a dangerous mandatory challenge. But is there more to their arrival than
they claim? When a curse leads to a toxic spill of pixie dust, the town comes unglued and the
doors between the human and faery worlds begin to open. To rescue the town and to face the
impossible magical test, Tammy needs the help of incredibly handsome Bryn Lyons, but WAM
has declared him totally off-limits. To avoid deadly consequences, Tammy probably ought to
follow the rules this time. On the other hand, rebellion is an old Texas tradition.
3rd in the charming Southern Witch series!
Kimberly Frost
Halfway Hexed
Berkley
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February 2011 (Rerelease March 2014)
First, there are the local residents who form a scripture-spouting posse and kidnap Tammy to
"defend" Duvall, Texas, against witchcraft. Next, someone saddles her with a secret package
chock full of dangerous visions, just as the president of WAM-the World Association of Magicarrives with his entourage to investigate her. And who worse to examine Tammy's entanglement
with off-limits and drop-dead gorgeous wizard Bryn Lyons than his ex-girlfriend? Not to mention
that the clash between the locals and the magical visitors leads to a series of unnatural disasters
that may doom them all.
While the fate of the town hangs in the balance, one thing's certain: this would-be witch is ready
to rumble, Texas style.
“Hot and spicy with a bite!”
--Kerrelyn Sparks, Bestselling Author
4th book in the charming Southern Witch series!
Kimberly Frost
Slightly Spellbound
Berkley
Foreign rights with Berkley (Penguin)
May 2014
With two kinds of magick at odds inside her and two gorgeous men vying for her attention,
Tammy Jo Trask is used to being pulled in opposite directions. But in the latest Southern Witch
novel she’ll have to make some serious decisions—like how she intends to stay alive.
Tammy Jo’s romance with the wizard Bryn Lyons is on hold while her ex-husband is in town
trying to remind her of the good old days. Choosing between them isn’t easy, and it doesn’t help
that a skeletal creature is spying on her, a faery knight is hunting her, and she just made friends
with Evangeline Rhodes—a rich witch who thinks her own family is trying to kill her.
When Evangeline disappears under suspicious circumstances, Tammy Jo is determined to find
out what happened. As she uncovers a secret more dangerous—and personal—than she could
have imagined, she also discovers that, in both love and magic, you can’t stay neutral forever.
Kimberly Frost
All That Bleeds
Berkley
January 2012
Rights with Berkley (Penguin)
As the last heiress of the House of North, Alissa knows that striking up a secret friendship with a
half-vampire enforcer is dangerous, but Merrick is a temptation she can't resist. But when Alissa
is kidnapped, Merrick proves that he will do anything to protect the woman who tempts him with
her very existence.
Kimberly Frost
All That Falls
Berkley
January 2012
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Rights with Berkley (Penguin)
The Etherlin muses have long served as the source of divine inspiration. Now their world stands
between the forces of Heaven and Hell…
As his muse, Cerise propelled her musician boyfriend to the heights of fame, but when he dies
under mysterious circumstances, her powers vanish. Now Cerise is plagued by disturbing halfformed memories of his final night…until she meets Lysander, who seems to hold the key to
restoring her memories and abilities. Fallen archangel Lysander is consumed by his quest for
redemption until it leads him to the captivating Cerise. Now his thirst for revenge is rivaled only
by his passion for the woman he can’t forget and won’t resist.
Bound by blood and stalked by a deadly enemy, will they pay the ultimate price for succumbing
to their passion?
Rachel Grant
Concrete Evidence
Create Space
April 2013
"Full of secrets, deadly intrigue and steamy romance. A MUST read." - Elisabeth Naughton, New
York Times Bestselling Author
A year ago she lost everything. Now she wants revenge...
Accused of stealing artifacts from a five-hundred-year-old shipwreck, underwater archaeologist
Erica Kesling is determined to clear her name. She's concealed her past and taken a job certain to
give her access to the buyer of the missing antiquities. She's finally closing in on her goal when
she's distracted by a sexy, charismatic intern who makes her want something other than revenge.
But Lee Scott is no intern. He's looking for the lead conspirator in an international artifact
smuggling scheme, and Erica is his prime suspect. He'll do whatever it takes to win her trust and
get her to reveal her secrets, even seduce her.
As Erica and Lee struggle to conceal their real agendas, the one thing they can't hide is the
attraction that burns hot between them. When Erica's quest puts her life in jeopardy, Lee must
choose between old loyalties and a woman he never expected to fall for.
Audio rights sold to Tantor. Hebrew rights sold to Kor'im Publishing House
Rachel Grant
Body of Evidence
CreateSpace
July 2013
"An exhilarating read that could easily be a blockbuster on the screen." - Kirkus Reviews
"Top-notch page turner! The perfect mix of suspense and romance." - Jill Barnett, New York
Times bestselling author
And she thought facing a firing squad was bad...
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When archaeologist Mara Garrett traveled to North Korea to retrieve the remains of GIs lost in
combat, she never imagined she'd be arrested, convicted of spying, and sentenced to death. Her
only hope is Curt Dominick, the powerful, ambitious, and infuriatingly sexy US attorney
prosecuting her uncle, a former vice president of the United States.
What starts off as a rescue mission quickly morphs into a race across the Pacific. Someone is after
Mara, and they'll risk everything to stop her from reaching Washington DC. With betrayal around
every corner, Curt and Mara have little reason to trust each other and every reason to deny the
sparks between them that blaze hotter than the Hawaiian sun. Still, desire clashes with loyalty
when they discover a conspiracy that threatens not only their lives but the national security of the
United States.
Hebrew rights sold to Kor'im Publishing House
Rachel Grant
Withholding Evidence
Janus Publishing
February 2014
Military historian Trina Sorensen has a nearly impossible task before her: get recalcitrant but
tempting former Navy SEAL Keith Hatcher to reveal what happened during a top secret Somalia
op five years ago. Recent history isn’t usually her forte, but the navy wants an historian’s
perspective and has given her the high security clearance to get the job done.
Keith isn’t just refusing to tell Trina about the op, he’s protecting a national secret that could
destroy the lives of those he cares about the most. But not wanting to talk about a covert mission
doesn’t mean he isn’t interested in spending time with the sexy historian, and the first time they
kiss it’s explosive.
When the past comes pounding on Keith’s door, he’ll do anything to keep Trina safe… Anything,
that is, except tell her the secret that could get them both killed.
Victoria Holt
India Fan
Pride of the Peacock
Shivering Sands
Time of the Hunter’s Moon
The Secret Woman
Sourcebooks
Spring, Fall, and Winter 2013
Victoria Holt
Mistress of Mellyn
Lord of the Far Island
Bride of Pendorric
On the Night of the Seventh Moon
St. Martin’s Press
March 2010
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Additional Titles Available!
Victoria Holt, one of the preeminent authors of romantic suspense of the twentieth century, is the
pen name of prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Jean Plaidy. With the reprint
of these timeless novels, a new generation of readers is given the opportunity to experience her
thrilling writing.
“Mistress of Mellyn was one of my first romance novels and I loved it… and fell in love with
romantic suspense because of it.”
—Jennifer Crusie, New York Times bestselling author
“Victoria Holt is one of the reasons I’m a writer. I love her because she lures you with the
promise of a fairy tale, then turns the screw.”
—Beth Harbison, New York Times bestselling author
Gary Jennings
Aztec
Forge
August 2006
Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told
in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark
Cloud, Aztecreveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner
splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortás and his
conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire. The story of Mixtli is the story of the
Aztecs themselves---a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilization's rise and
fall.
Other titles in the Aztec Series:
Aztec Autumn
Aztec Blood
Aztec Rage
Aztec Fire
Gary Jennings
The 2012 Codex
Forge
Fall 2012
In Mexico, the race is on for the ultimate end-of-the-world codex—the final 1000-year-old
prophesy of the god-king, Quetzalcoatl, who ruled Mexico 1000 years ago. Rita Critchlow and
Cooper Jones hunt for that sacred codex, while 500 years ago, Pacal, a young slave-scholar, sets
out on the same deadly quest. He too must find those apocalyptic writings, knowing that his era—
the Age of the Aztecs—may well come to an end if he does not find them.
For Pacal, the End-Time is at hand. Montezuma has built a vast empire, but he faces war,
disastrous drought, death-cult priests, who rip the hearts out of thousands of people atop their
pyramids . . . and the arrival of red-bearded horse-borne conquistador, bearing preternaturally
powerful weapons and catastrophic plagues, sowing pandemic death wherever he goes.
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America’s leaders are also staring into an apocalyptic abyss. Their own time mirrors that of
Quetzacoatl’s and the Aztec’s in shocking detail. Convinced that Quetzalcoatl’s codex holds the
key to humanity’s survival—that he is warning them of a global, planet-killing threat—the two
women battle to track it down and decipher it.
Moreover, earlier glimpses of his prophesy foreshadow uncanny similarities to those of John’s
Book of Revelation. Are Quetzalcoatl’s and Revelation’s prophesies one and the same? Can they
crack the 2012 code and save their world from their deadly fate? The countdown is on.
“Exotic, scary…a fast, fun read that starts with a bang and never stops.”
—Larry Bond, New York Times Bestselling Author
Henry Kisor
Tracking the Beast (#4 in the Steve Martinez series)
Five Star
Coming in 2015!
When the remains of three little girls turn up inside railroad hopper cars, Sheriff Steve Martinez
faces a troublesome case, for the cars had sat for years on a siding deep inside his beloved
Porcupine County. After Steve and his comrades do the spadework, the FBI moves in, thinking
their Unsub is both rapist and murderer. But Steve believes the killer—or killers—instead hired
someone to dispose of the bodies. With the help of lawmen of all kinds, including the Ontario
Provincial Police, and even Detroit mobsters, Steve doggedly tracks “the Beast.” This intricate
police procedural, set in the wilds of Upper Michigan, features not only an exciting high-tech
chase around Lake Superior but also the revival of a clever World War II deception.
Other titles in the Steve Martinez series
Season’s Revenge (#1)
A Venture into Murder (#2)
A Cache of Corpses (#3)
Ervin D. Krause
You Will Never See Any God
University of Nebraska Press
Spring 2014
A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: “There was nothing
dead that was ever beautiful.” It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story
but also in the rough lives and deaths, small and large, that fill these haunting tales. Pulp-fiction
grim and gritty but with the rhythm and resonance of classic folklore, these stories take place in a
world of shadowy figures and childhood fears, in a countryside peopled by witches and skinflints,
by men and women mercilessly unforgiving of one another’s trespasses, and in nights prowled by
wolves and scrutinized by an “agonized and lamenting” moon. Ervin D. Krause’s characters
pontificate in saloons, condemning the morals of others as they slowly get sloshed; they have
affairs in old cars on winter nights; they traffic in gossip, terrorize their neighbors, steal, hunt, and
spy.
This collection includes award-winning stories like “The Snake” and “The Quick and the Dead”
as well as the previously unpublished “Anniversary,” which stirred a national controversy when it
was censored by the University of Nebraska and barred from appearing in Prairie Schooner.
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Krause’s portrayal of the matter-of-fact cruelty and hopeful fragility of humanity is a critical
addition to the canon of twentieth-century American literature.
“Although there is not a single ghoul or specter to be found in the fiction of Ervin Krause, these
sad, troubling stories will haunt you. He anatomized every part of us: our wicked wishes, our
shameful fears, and our tragic desires.”—Owen King, author of Double Feature: A Novel
Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith
Dodsworth
Elmer Gantry
and more…
Nobel Prize-winner in Literature and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Lewis wrote several brilliant novels
that examined American society and capitalist values. They also featured strong characterizations
of modern working women.
Sinclair Lewis
It Can’t Happen Here
New American Library / Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
October 2005 (Reissue)
A wonderful new edition from NAL on the seventy-five year anniversary of this masterpiece’s
first publication. A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in America, Berzelius Windrip wins
the election for the American presidency, forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme
Court, and with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a
totalitarian state. An eerily prescient novel in 1935 and again today.
Spanish rights sold (Velecio Editores).
Tom Paine
A Boy’s Book of Breakdowns
LSU Press
October 2015
The insightful and provocative stories in Tom Paine’s collection spring from a series of seismic
events that rocked the post-millennium world. News headlines from the last decade—the fall of
Baghdad, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the BP oil spill—not only inspire the settings
but also raise ethical questions that percolate throughout this ominous and timely work.
A stark reminder of the challenges and resultant anxiety facing a global society, A Boy’s Book of
Nervous Breakdowns depicts the simultaneously dreamlike and brutally real experience of
witnessing contemporary political and environmental catastrophes. Paine approaches the second
U.S. invasion of Iraq through the eyes of a CBS radio journalist and her desperate Iraqi translator
as they report the opening months of the attack and dodge dan- ger with a newborn in tow. In
other stories, a father blames global warming for the drowning death of his daughter and journeys
by horseback across the last of the Montana glaciers; a Japanese reggae band struggles under the
radioactive umbrella of the Fukushima nuclear disaster; and a genius at Goldman Sachs invents a
money-making algorithm, then ends his days with a tribe of headhunters in the Amazon.
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Paine masterfully orchestrates these episodic depictions of a failing civilization, however
unnerving, through a wide array of perspectives, each tied to the other by Cassandra-like
prophecies. Immediately compelling, A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns confronts the harsh
realities of our time with imaginative and moving vignettes that reinforce the fragility, greed, and
heartache of the human condition.
Walker Percy
The Moviegoer
Alfred A. Knopf
May 1961
ADDITIONAL TITLES AVAILABLE
Winner of the National Book Award in 1961, THE MOVIEGOER established Walker Percy as
one of the most exciting voices in American fiction. In his portrait of a boyish New Orleans
stockbroker wavering between ennui and the longing for redemption, Percy managed to combine
Bourbon Street elegance with the spiritual urgency of a Russian novel. Avenue Pictures own the
motion picture rights (Closer, Angels in America, and Drugstore Cowboy).
Rights sold in the United Kingdom (Methuen Publishing), Chinese simplified (Chongqing), Czech
(Prostor), French (Rivages), Italian (Marcos & Marcos), Japanese (Osaka Kyoiku Tosho),
Polish (P.H.U. Sonia Draga), Turkish (Ayrinti Yayinlari), Korean (Minumsa), and Serbian
(Okean IP).
Jean Plaidy
The Catherine de’Medici Trilogy: Madame Serpent (July 2012), The Italian Woman
(January 2013), Queen Jezebel (March 2013)
Touchstone Fireside (S&S)
Fourteen-year-old Catherine de’ Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans,
second son of the King of France. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy,
forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family.
Amid the glittering fêtes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the
reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies
on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. Tortured by what she sees, Catherine
becomes consumed by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in
France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn by a Medici heir. . . .
Madonna of the Seven Hills (January 2011) **Stories of the BORGIAS!!**
Light on Lucrezia (January 2011) **Stories of the BORGIAS!!**
Three Rivers Press / Crown Publishers
ADDITIONAL TITLES AVAILABLE
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction of the twentieth century, is the pen
name of prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. With the reprint of
these timeless novels, a new generation of readers is given the opportunity to experience history
as only Jean Plaidy can write it.
All seventy-five titles in the series sold in the United Kingdom (Arrow). Plaidy is also published
in Spanish (Ediciones B), Portuguese (Editora Bestseller/Grupo Editorial Record), Hungarian
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(IPC), Croatian (Mozaik knjiga), Serbian (ALNARI), Dutch (Uitgeverij Unieboek), Turkish (Alfa
Basim Yayim Dagitim), Indonesian (PT. Elex Media Komputindo) and Croatian (Mozaik Knjiga)
and Czech (Baronet). Victoria Holt is published in the UK, Spanish, German, Polish, Russian and
Danish.
“Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama.”
--New York Times
Harold Robbins
eBook backlist now available from Tor/Forge
Winter 2013
The Betrayers
Blood Royal
The Carpetbaggers
The Curse
The Deceivers
The Devil To Pay
Heat of Passion
Never Enough
The Piranhas
The Predators
The Secret
The Shroud
Sin City
The Storyteller
and Harold and Me by Jann Robbins
Harold Robbins
A Stone For Danny Fischer
Touchstone Fireside / Simon & Schuster
Summer 2007 (reissue)
A reissue of the classic bestseller by Harold Robbins. First published in 1952, it was later made
into the film King Creole, starring Elvis Presley. A serious and insightful look at the affect of the
Great Depression on a lower-middle class Jewish family.
Rights sold in Romanian (Editura Lucman).
Harold Robbins
The Carpetbaggers
Forge Books / St. Martin’s Press
May 2007 (reissue)
Jonas Cord coveted his father’s fame, fortune, even his young, beautiful wife. When his father
died, Jonas swore to possess them all. But Rina Marlow was the celebrated screen goddess no
man could master. Her sizzling sensuality might inflame and enthrall millions, but her personal
boudoir was no Hollywood fantasy. She consumed her lovers on the fiery rack of her burning
desires.
Rina and Jonas took Hollywood, the airplane industry, America itself by storm. From New York
to LA they brawled, lusted, and carved out an empire, blazoned in banner headlines and their
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enemies’ blood—only to learn that money and power, revenge and renown were not enough. Too
much would never be enough—not for Jonas Cord and the relentless Rina Marlowe. The higher
they soared, the more their ambition demanded . . . the darker and deadlier their fiery passions
grew.
Rights sold in simplified Chinese (New Star Publishing), UK (Hodder & Stoughton), Russian
(Zakharov Publishers), and Portuguese (Distribudora Record), Lithuanian (Jotema), Bulgarian
(UNISCORP), and Serbian (ALNARI).
Gwen Roland
Postmark Bayou Chene
LSU Press
November 2015
In the heart of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, a letter sent from an isolated settlement, addressed
to Hautes-Pyrénées, France, and marked undeliverable, shows up at the Bayou Chene post office.
That same day locals find a dog, nearly dead and tethered to an empty skiff. Odd yet seemingly
trivial, the arrival of a masterless dog and a returned letter triggers a series of events that will
dramatically change the lives of three friends and affect all of the residents of Bayou Chene.
Gwen Roland’s debut novel, set in 1907 in a secluded part of Louisiana, follows young adults
Loyce Snellgrove, her cousin Lafayette “Fate” Landry, and his friend Valzine Broussard as they
navigate between revelations about the past and tensions in the present. Forces large and small—
the tragedies of the Civil War, the hardships of swamp life, family secrets, as well as unfailing
humor—create a prismatic depiction of Louisiana folklife at the turn of the twentieth century and
provide a realistic setting for this enchanting drama.
Michael H. Rubin
The Cottoncrest Curse
Louisiana State University Press
September 2014
The bodies of an elderly colonel and his comely young wife are discovered on the staircase of
their stately plantation home, their blood still dripping down the wooden balustrades. Within the
sheltered walls of Cottoncrest, Augustine and Rebecca Chastaine have met their deaths under the
same shroud of mystery that befell the former owner, who had committed suicide at the end of the
Civil War. Locals whisper about the curse of Cottoncrest Plantation, an otherworldly force that
has now taken three lives. But Sheriff Raifer Jackson knows that even a specter needs a mortal
accomplice, and after investigating the crime scene, he concludes that the apparent
murder/suicide is a double homicide, with local peddler Jake Gold as the prime suspect.
Assisted by his overzealous deputy, a grizzled Civil War physician, and the racist Knights of the
White Camellia, the Sheriff directs a manhunt for Jake through a village of former slaves, the
swamps of Cajun country, and the bordellos of New Orleans. But Jake’s chameleon-like abilities
enable him to elude his pursuers. As a peddler who has built relationships by trading fabric,
needles, dry goods, and especially razor-sharp knives in exchange for fur, Jake knows the back
roads of the small towns that dot the Mississippi River Delta. Additionally, his uncanny talent for
languages allows him to pose as just another local, hiding his true identity as an immigrant Jew
who fled Czarist -Russia.
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Michael H. Rubin’s The Cottoncrest Curse takes readers on the bold journey of Jake’s flight
within an epic sweep of treachery and family rivalry ranging from the Civil War to the civil rights
era, as the impact of the 1893 murders ripples through the twentieth century and violence besets
the owners of Cottoncrest into the 1960s.
Lizbeth Selvig
Rescued by a Stranger
HarperCollins
October 2013
A woman full of dreams
When a stranger arrives in town on a vintage motorcycle, Jill Carpenter has no idea her life is
about to change. She never expected her own personal knight in shining armor would be an
incredibly charming and handsome southern man—but one with a deep secret.
A man outrunning a tragedy
When Chase Preston jumped on his motorcycle to escape, he didn't expect the perfect woman to
fall into his arms... literally! Though he can't deny his feelings for the sweet and beautiful Jill, he
doesn't see how he and his mistake-filled past will fit into her bright future.
Falling in love may require more than either can give
The longer Chase stays in Kennison Falls, the more deeply Jill and the people of her home town
pull him in. As Jill discovers Chase’s heroic qualities, she wants to find a home in his arms—if
only he would trust her. But will truth tear them apart when Chase’s past returns to haunt him?
Or, can they get beyond dreams to find the love that will rescue their two hearts?
Lizbeth Selvig
The Rancher and the Rockstar
AVON Impulse
March 2012
To the world, Gray Covey is a rock superstar. But to his runaway son, he's simply the father who
never has any time for him. To prove that he's more than his rock star lifestyle, for the next few
weeks Gray must put aside his fame and become...a farmhand?
Abby Stadtler has built the perfect, quiet life for herself. When Gray shows up on her doorstep,
looking like he stepped straight off the front cover of a magazine, she is determined that he won't
upset her routine.
But what neither counts on is the love that springs up between them. Abby knows that life on a
ranch in Minnesota can never compete with an exciting world tour. But for Gray, it's time to
decide what's really important. With Abby's help, will he be able to decide, once and for all, that
love and family are the answer?
“The cutest cowboy ebook with a fun twist… If you love stories about rock stars and cowboys,
then THE RANCHER AND THE ROCK STAR by Lizbeth Selvig is for you.”
—Lori Wilde, New York Times Bestselling Author
Lizbeth Selvig
The Bride Wore Denim
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Harper Collins
December 2015
When Harper’s father dies unexpectedly, she returns to Paradise Ranch, where she’s surprised by
how different life there is from when she was a girl. Her mother is truly devastated by the loss of
her husband, a man all the sisters thought simply took advantage of her kind heart and loyalty and
never appreciated her. Amelia is a successful and still-brilliant grown up with the same kinds of
business savvy and temperament as their father. And Joely is still stunning, but now she’s a happy
suburban wife as far from the ranch girl she once was as she could be. Her baby triplet sisters are
now twenty-something musketeers, still unendingly cheery and mischievous as they ever were,
but filled with youthful vision and crazy ideas for the future of Paradise Ranch. Harper is still odd
man out.
Her saving grace is an old friend from her childhood—Amelia’s one-time boyfriend Cole
Wainwright. All Harper can do for him, for everyone in the family, is be the buddy again—the
artistic, hippie-like, ethereal shoulder to cry on. But something in Cole’s stalwart, down-home,
nose-to-the-grindstone personality gives Harper an anchor for the first time in her life. And
something in Harper’s soulful, take-life-as-it-comes spirit lifts Cole from the drudgery he
sometimes sinks into as he tries to rescue his own family’s failed ranch.
When they find out that Paradise Ranch is in more financial trouble than anyone but the girls’
mother realized, it’s Harper and the free-spirited triplets who ignore practical solutions and start
trying to be creative. When Harper’s mother and sister Joely are injured in a serious car accident,
Harper finally has to find her leadership qualities and work to bring all the personalities of a farflung family together. It’s Cole who balances her pie-in-the-sky outlook with real ideas and helps
heal their pasts so their futures are intertwined and bright with promise.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! AWARD WINNING FILM ADAPTATION!!!
8 OSCAR NOMINATIONS!!!
Upton Sinclair
Oil!
Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
December 2007
Movie tie-in version to Paramount Vantage’s There Will Be Blood
First published in 1927 to critical acclaim, America’s most famous muck-racker Upton Sinclair
fashioned Oil! out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a
detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public
officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's
story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers
and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil
magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.
Scott Rudin produced the film adaptation of this work. Paul Thomas Anderson directed (i.e.
Magnolia and Boogie Nights), with Daniel Day Lewis in the starring role (the title has been
changed to “There Will Be Blood”).
Rights sold in German (Random House), French (Editions Gutenberg) and French pocketbook
(Livre de Poche), Spanish (Edhasa), UK (Penguin), Russian (AST Publishers), Turkish (POZITIF
TUR.DIS.TIC.Ltd.), Romanian (Editura POLIROM SA), Greek (Kastaniotis Editions), Czech
(Nakladatelstvi XYZ) Hebrew (Aryeh Nir Publishing House Ltd., and Russian (ATTICUS –
AZBOOKA).
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Elizabeth Spencer
Starting Over
Liveright (W.W. Norton)
January 2014
From the author of the Light in the Piazza, the Tony Award winning musical, one of the
masters of American short fiction returns with a new collection of stories.
Upon the release of her first novel in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer was immediately championed by
Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty, setting off a remarkable career as one of the great literary
voices of the American South. Her career, now spanning seven decades, continues here with nine
new stories. In Starting Over, Spencer returns to the deep emotional fault lines and unseen
fractures that lie just beneath the veneer of happy family life. In “Sightings,” a troubled daughter
suddenly returns to the home of the father she accidently blinded during her parents’ bitter
separation; in “Blackie,” the reappearance of a son from a divorcee’s first marriage triggers a
harrowing confrontation with her new family; while in “The Wedding Visitor,” a cousin travels
home only to find himself entwined in the events leading up to a family wedding. In these nine
stories, Spencer excels at revealing the flawed fabric of human relations.
“Ms. Spencer is a rare and true master. And as with all masterful stories, they make me talk to
myself in wholly new ways about life.” —Richard Ford
John Steinbeck
The Portable Steinbeck
Fall 2012
50th anniversary of Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize!
Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with Portable
Steinbeck for the 21st century.
It would be impossible to overstate John Steinbeck's enduring influence on American letters.
Profuse with a richness of language, sly humor, and empathy for even his most flawed characters,
Steinbeck's books are still widely read and deeply relevant today.
The Portable Steinbeck is a grand sampling of his most important and popular works. Here are
the complete novels Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony, together with self-contained excerpts
from several longer novels, the text of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a fascinating
introduction by Pascal Covici, Jr., son of Steinbeck's longtime editor, and brand new introduction
from leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw that puts Steinbeck in the context of the 21st
century.
John Steinbeck
The Acts of King Arthur
Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Fall 2007 (reissue)
With a fabulous new introduction by writing prodigy, Christopher Paolini, The Acts of King
Arthur tells the sparkling Arthurian myths in a novel way. The first book John Steinbeck read as a
child was Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, and he considered this modernization of the
stories of King Arthur to be one of the most challenging tasks of his career. Posthumously
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published in 1976, with this retranslation Steinbeck succeeds in breathing new life into these
legendary tales of valor and honor.
Considered one of the best American novelists of the twentieth century, John Steinbeck received
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Among his many works are The Grapes of Wrath, East of
Eden, Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men. East of Eden was an “Oprah Book
Club” pick in 2001 and will be a feature film, with Ron Howard directing.
Rights sold in the UK (Penguin UK), German (Paul Zsolnay), Italian (RCS Libri), Danish
(Lademann), Bulgarian (Prozoretz), Catalan (Edhasa), and Spanish in South America
(SudaAmericana).
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition
Penguin
April 2014
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning epic of the Great Depression
chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family,
the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of
California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America
divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale
and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.
Rights sold in Korea (Minumsa), Japanese (Meiji Gakuin University), Georgian (Publishing
House Palitra L), Armenian (Zangak)
Phyllis T. Smith
I Am Livia (#1 Kindle Bestseller!)
Lake Union Publishing, Amazon
May 2014
Her life would be marked by scandal and suspicion, worship and adoration…
At the tender age of fourteen, Livia Drusilla overhears her father and fellow aristocrats plotting
the assassination of Julius Caesar. Proving herself an astute confidante, she becomes her father’s
chief political asset—and reluctantly enters into an advantageous marriage to a prominent
military officer. Her mother tells her, “It is possible for a woman to influence public affairs,”
reminding Livia that—while she possesses a keen sense for the machinations of the Roman
senate—she must also remain patient and practical.
But patience and practicality disappear from Livia’s mind when she meets Caesar’s heir,
Octavianus. At only eighteen, he displays both power and modesty. A young wife by that point,
Livia finds herself drawn to the golden-haired boy. In time, his fortunes will rise as Livia’s family
faces terrible danger. But her sharp intellect—and her heart—will lead Livia to make an
unbelievable choice: one that will give her greater sway over Rome than she could have ever
foreseen.
Foreign rights with Amazon.
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Phyllis T. Smith
Daughters of Palatine Hill (Companion to #1 Kindle Bestseller I Am Livia)
Lake Union Publishing, Amazon
Coming February 2016!
Foreign rights with Amazon
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Louisiana State University Press
May 1980
Ignatius Reilly, a giant adult brat in New Orleans, is so monstrously self-absorbed, opinionated
and cocksure of himself as to create hilarious mayhem wherever he goes. With over 1.5 million
copies in print and translations in over twenty languages, A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES is a
comic masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Film rights are with Paramount
Pictures.
Rights sold in Chinese (Beijing Mediatime Books Co., Ltd), Finnish (Karisto), Hungarian
(Cartaphilus), Galician (Faktoria K de Libros), Polish (Bertelsmann Media Spolka), Danish
(Toffsteins Tryksager), Korean (Y-Gelli Books), Turkish (Merkez Kitaplari Sehit Muhtar),
Slovene (Apokalipsa Publishing House), Norwegian (Tiden), Portuguese in Brazil (Editor
Francis), Romania (Polirom), Italian (Marcos), Czech (Argo), Croatian (Algoritam), Swedish
(Norstedts Forlag) and Catalan (Columna Edicions Libres I Communicacio).
JohnWarner
Tough Day for the Army
Louisiana State University Press
September 2014
The stories in John Warner’s Tough Day for the Army move from hilarious and biting to
unsettling and sad—sometimes within the span of a few pages. Mining the absurdities,
confusions, and hypocrisies of our contemporary times, these stories raise questions such as:
What would happen if Jesus Christ played minor league hockey before he became the Son of God
(“Second Careers”)? What would you do if a group of poets in search of inspiration appeared on
your farm (“Poet Farmers”)?
Warner’s relentlessly inventive stories are reminiscent of the works of Donald Barthelme, George
Saunders, and Amy Hempel. With comic and tender rambunctiousness, his satirical voice parries
and thrusts its way through each narrative, combining a strong wit with a soft heart.
Teri Wilson
Alaskan Hero
Harlequin Books
March 2013
Rights with Harlequin Books
Never stay in one place too long. These are the words Brock Parker lives by. Roaming the world
to save avalanche victims keeps the search-and-rescue patrolman from getting too close to
anyone. The resort ski town of Aurora is no different. Until Brock meets Anya Petrova. The
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Alaska native needs someone to train her dog. Who better than the man who works wonders with
his canine rescue team? Haunted by a family tragedy, Brock doesn't think he's anyone's hero. But
Anya refuses to believe that. And when she shows her true mettle in the face of breathtaking
danger, Brock realizes what he'll risk for the woman whose love has healed his heart.
Teri Wilson
Alaskan Hero
Harlequin Books
May 2012
Rights with Harlequin Books
Former Alaskan sled-dog musher Ben Grayson is still grieving the tragic loss of his dog team. So
much that he put the reins—and his dreams—away.
Now a photographer, Ben's covering the Gold Rush Trail sled-dog race. He's surprised his heart
isn't more guarded around lovely journalist Clementine Phillips—until he learns that Clementine
plans to handle a sled-dog team herself. Ben can't bear the thought of Clementine in danger.
So he comes up with a compromise—one to keep her close…forever.
Teri Wilson
Unleashing Mr. Darcy
Harlequin Books
December 2013
Rights with Harlequin Books
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman teetering on the verge of thirty must be
in want of a husband.
Not true for Manhattanite Elizabeth Scott. Instead of planning a walk down the aisle, she's
crossing the pond with the only companion she needs—her darling dog, Bliss. Caring for a pack
of show dogs in England seems the perfect distraction from the scandal that ruined her teaching
career, and her reputation, in New York. What she doesn't count on is an unstoppable attraction to
billionaire dog breeder Donovan Darcy. The London tycoon's a little bit arrogant, a whole lot
sexy…and the chemistry between them is disarming. When passion is finally unleashed, might
Elizabeth hope to take home more than a blue ribbon?
Teri Wilson
Unmasking Juliet
Harlequin Books
December 2013
Rights with Harlequin Books
Ever since she was a little girl learning to make decadent truffles in her family's chocolate shop,
Juliet Arabella has been aware of the bitter feud between the Arabellas and the Mezzanottes. With
their rival chocolate boutiques on the same street in Napa Valley, these families never mix. Until
one night, when Juliet anonymously attends the annual masquerade ball. In a moonlit vineyard,
she finds herself falling for a gorgeous stranger, a man who reminds her what passion is like
outside of the kitchen. But her bliss is short-lived when she discovers her masked prince is
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actually Leo Mezzanotte, newly returned from Paris and the heir to her archenemy's confection
dynasty.
With her mind in a whirl, Juliet leaves for Italy to represent the Arabellas in a prestigious
chocolate competition. The prize money will help her family's struggling business, and Juliet
figures it's a perfect opportunity to forget Leo…only to find him already there and gunning for
victory. As they compete head-to-head, Leo and Juliet's fervent attraction boils over. But Juliet's
not sure whether to trust her adversary, or give up on the sweetest love she's ever tasted..
PUBLISHERS
Louisiana State University Press
Founded in 1935, the Louisiana State University Press is a nonprofit book publisher dedicated to
the publication of scholarly, general interest, and regional books. Over the decades, LSU Press
has grown steadily and currently publishes approximately eighty new books each year as well as
a backlist of some 1,000 titles. Noted internationally for its books, the Press’s primary areas of
focus include southern history, biography, and literature; the Civil War and World War II; poetry;
political philosophy and political communications; music studies, particularly jazz; geography
and environmental studies; and illustrated books about the Gulf South region. The Press is
perhaps most widely recognized as the original publisher of John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. In the mid-nineties it launched the acclaimed
paperback fiction reprint series Voices of the South and in 2005, after a hiatus of about a decade,
resumed publishing original fiction under the new series Yellow Shoe Fiction, edited by Michael
Griffith.
LSU Press is the only university press to have won a Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry
(most recently in 2006 for LATE WIFE by Claudia Emerson). Through the years, its books have
earned many prestigious honors, including a total of three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book
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the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, the Lamont Poetry
Selection by the Academy of American Poets, and numerous others.
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they reprint previously published fiction of established reputation, and they have several
programs to publish literary works in translation. Through their paperback imprint, Bison Books,
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the Press publishes original works and reissues of books of permanent value in all fields of
knowledge. University of Nebraska Press recently acquired The Jewish Publication Society (JPS)
and Potomac Books.
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Working with authors throughout the world, we seek books that meet high editorial standards,
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contributes significantly to the ideas that shape the critical issues of our day.
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John Farris
Eleanor Hibbert (a.k.a. Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr)
Gary Jennings
Dorothy Johnson
Harry Kemelman
Sinclair Lewis
Louisiana State University Press
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David Nevin
Richard Newcomb
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Upton Sinclair
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